Fiji declares coronavirus free country

New Zealand and Fuji coronavirus free countries

Fiji declares coronavirus free country
Fiji declares coronavirus free country

The UK was first always vulnerable and going to face a challenge dealing with coronavirus that is both infectious and deadly. With London being the global hub the virus arrived quickly. The first documented virus case was reported in February, but there are suggestions it was circulating before then.

 London also provided the perfect breeding ground large and densely packed population as London saw a surge ahead of the rest of the UK.

The procedures used in the early days – the so-called contain, delay and mitigate action plan was based on the strategy for influenza not coronavirus. Prof Devi Sridhar, Chairwoman of Global Public Health at Edinburgh University, says this led to the assumption the virus could not be contained and instead had to be managed.

She says, “Our leaders failed to grasp the gravity of the situation”.

Other countries such as Taiwan and Singapore thought and acted differently, as their experience of dealing with the Sars and Mers, had already established testing and tracing networks in place, which were instantly deployed and between them, they have only seen just more than 300 deaths, despite having a combined population greater than the UK.

Prof Sridhar said the approach of the UK smacked of complacency, but this criticism also levelled at the US  and other European countries also.

When the gravity of the situation emerged the UK was too slow to act decisively.

The full lockdown was not announced until 23rd March.

During that time people were travelling around the country, commuters flooded in and out of London on busy trains, Tubes and buses and major sporting events continued including the Cheltenham festival.

Channel Four Dispatches programme has suggested a lockdown on 12 March could have saved 13, 000 lives while one on 165 March might have saved 8, 000.

According to the World Health Organisation,  the key to tackling coronavirus was always test, test, test. But the problem was the UK did not do this as they did not have any test kits.

In the early days of the pandemic, the government was quick to boast about its testing capacity, the ability to carry out 1000 tests was quickly increased to 3, 000.  But as the outbreak spread it became clear there were not enough tests to go round.  In mid-March, the decision was taken to stop offering tests to people in the community so they could be reserved for hospital patients.

Public Health England and health officials in the rest of the UK relied on eight small labs and their own testers at the time.

The policy remained in place weeks before the government entered into serious discussions with the hospitals, universities and the  private sector to increase the  testing capacity,` It was not until late April before  it was able to test tens of thousands of patients  a day as countries like Italy and Germany were doing.;

On Thursday a further  357 people died of coronavirus taking the death toll to 40261. The UK is the second country after the US with 108, 000 deaths to pass the milestone.

New Zealand and Fuji declare them corona free countries and has removed almost all its coronavirus restriction as there are no active cases in those countries.

Under the relaxation, although social distancing will no longer be required but will still be encouraged and there will be no limits on public gatherings but the border will remain closed.

New Zealand has reported no new Covid-19 cases for over two weeks. Under the new rules which will come into place in just a matter of hours all schools and workplaces will be open weddings, funerals and public transport will be able to resume without any restrictions.

Fiji has declared itself free of the coronavirus after all 18 people who tested positive have recovered.
Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama said that the South Pacific island nation had just cleared the last of its active patients after he wrote on Twitter “ And even with our testing numbers climbing by the day, It’s now been 45 days since we recorded our last case, with no deaths, our recovery rate is 100 per cent. Answered prayers, hard work and affirmation of science!”.

Other countries that declared themselves coronavirus free include Tanzania, Montenegro, Seychelles, Papua New Guinea, Holy See, Eritrea and St Kitts and Nevis.

 

# Country, Total New Total New Total Active Serious, Tot Cases/ Deaths/ Total Tests/ Population
Other Cases Cases Deaths Deaths Recovered Cases Critical 1M pop 1M pop Tests 1M pop
  World 7,106,010 23,814 406,395 1,314 3,467,367 3,232,248 53,745 912 52.1  
1 USA 2,007,449 112,469 761,708 1,133,272 16,923 6,067 340 21,291,677 64,349 330880530
2 Brazil 691,962 37,312 813 302,084 352,566 8,318 3,257 176 999,836 4,706 212463372
3 Russia 476,658 8,985 5,971 112 230,688 239,999 2,300 3,266 41 13,000,000 89,083 145930700
4 Spain 288,630 27,136 N/A N/A 617 6,173 580 4,465,338 95,508 46753690
5 UK 286,194   40,542   N/A N/A 604 4,217 597 5,581,073 82,239 67863688
6 India 258,090 604 7,207 124,095 126,788 8,944 187 5 4,774,434 3,462 1379122578
7 Italy 234,998 33,899 165,837 35,262 287 3,886 561 4,236,535 70,063 60467085
8 Peru 196,515 5,465 86,219 104,831 1,062 5,966 166 1,191,956 36,185 32941004
9 Germany 185,869 8,776 169,600 7,493 568 2,219 105 4,348,880 51,916 83767456
10 Iran 171,789 8,281 134,349 29,159 2,596 2,047 99 1,084,857 12,927 83921387
11 Turkey 170,132 4,692 137,969 27,471 613 2,019 56 2,338,593 27,748 84279639
12 France 153,977 29,155 70,842 53,980 1,053 2,359 447 1,384,633 21,216 65264696
13 Chile 134,150 2,190 95,631 36,329 1,558 7,021 115 708,773 37,098 19105644
14 Mexico 117,103 3,484 13,699 188 84,419 18,985 378 909 106 336,395 2,611 128844230
15 Pakistan 103,671 4,728 2,067 65 34,355 67,249 111 470 9 705,833 3,200 220591553
16 Saudi Arabia 101,914 712 72,817 28,385 1,564 2,931 20 958,237 27,554 34776977
17 Canada 95,699 7,800 54,233 33,666 1,816 2,537 207 1,896,822 50,286 37720832
18 China 83,040 4 4,634 78,341 65 1 58 3 1,439,323,776
19 Qatar 68,790 54 44,338 24,398 245 24,500 19 255,533 91,008 2,807,805
20 Bangladesh 68,504 2,735 930 42 14,560 53,014 1 416 6 410,841 2,496 164582631
21 Belgium 59,226 9,595 16,291 33,340 111 5,112 828 935,670 80,755 11586489
22 Belarus 48,630 269 23,647 24,714 92 5,146 28 622,313 65,857 9449509
23 South Africa 48,285 998 24,364 22,923 208 815 17 920,064 15,526 59258991
24 Netherlands 47,574 6,013 N/A N/A 97 2,777 351 388,113 22,654 17132558
25 Sweden 44,730 4,659 N/A N/A 198 4,431 462 275,500 27,290 10095291
26 Ecuador 43,120 3,621 21,020 18,479 222 2,447 205 127,414 7,229 17624879
27 Colombia 39,236 1,259 15,322 22,655 335 772 25 410,719 8,077 50847406
28 UAE 38,808 276 21,806 16,726 1 3,927 28 2,500,000 252,973 9882493
29 Singapore 38,296 386 25 24,886 13,385 3 6,549 4 408,495 69,859 5847399
30 Portugal 34,693 1,479 20,995 12,219 58 3,402 145 873,998 85,699 10198446
31 Egypt 34,079 1,237 8,961 23,881 41 333 12 135,000 1,321 102199634
32 Kuwait 31,848 264 20,205 11,379 196 7,465 62 315,285 73,901 4266300
33 Indonesia 31,186 1,851 10,498 18,837 114 7 405,992 1,485 273334499
34 Switzerland 30,965 1,921 28,700 344 28 3,580 222 423,468 48,952 8650592
35 Ukraine 27,462 463 797 9 12,195 14,470 304 628 18 431,085 9,854 43748704
36 Poland 26,780 219 1,161 4 12,998 12,621 160 708 31 1,056,396 27,911 37849071
37 Ireland 25,201 1,679 22,698 824 36 5,107 340 348,416 70,613 4934162
38 Argentina 22,794 664 6,909 15,221 274 505 15 193,923 4,293 45168963
39 Philippines 21,895 1,003 4,530 16,362 82 200 9 430,081 3,928 109483597
40 Afghanistan 20,917 575 369 12 2,171 18,377 19 538 9 48,305 1,243 38865373
41 Romania 20,479 1,334 1 14,638 4,507 144 1,064 69 503,200 26,147 19244947
42 Dominican Republic 19,600 538 12,007 7,055 110 1,808 50 94,511 8,718 10840829
43 Israel 17,915 52 298 15,102 2,515 27 1,948 32 662,916 72,075 9,197,590
44 Japan 17,141 916 15,139 1,086 98 136 7 314,483 2,486 126499051
45 Austria 16,902 672 15,793 437 17 1,877 75 494,761 54,954 9003169
46 Oman 16,882 75 3,451 13,356 75 3,312 15 108,679 21,322 5097088
47 Panama 16,425 393 10,218 5,814 84 3,811 91 72,697 16,867 4310139
48 Bahrain 14,763 26 9,468 5,269 13 8,700 15 367,056 216,308 1696917
49 Bolivia 13,643 285 465 11 2,086 11,092 3 1,170 40 37,276 3,196 11662351
50 Armenia 13,325 195 211 11 4,099 9,015 10 4,497 71 70,000 23,625 2962906
51 Kazakhstan 12,859 165 56 3 7,376 5,427 62 685 3 965,089 51,439 18761857
52 Nigeria 12,486 354 3,959 8,173 7 61 2 76,802 373 205766196
53 Iraq 12,366 346 5,186 6,834 69 308 9 303,053 7,547 40157701
54 Denmark 11,948 589 10,755 604 15 2,063 102 706,442 121,991 5790943
55 Serbia 11,823 249 11,348 226 15 1,353 28 272,502 31,181 8739407
56 S. Korea 11,814 38 273 10,563 978 15 230 5 1,018,214 19,861 51266523
57 Algeria 10,154 707 6,717 2,730 24 232 16 43796100
58 Moldova 9,700 346 5 5,738 3,616 318 2,404 86 63,328 15,697 4034514
59 Ghana 9,638 44 3,636 5,958 3 311 1 233,734 7,533 31026938
60 Czechia 9,629 1 328 1 6,896 2,405 12 899 31 473,747 44,243 10707772
61 Norway 8,547 238 8,138 171 5 1,577 44 257,303 47,486 5418531
62 Malaysia 8,322 117 6,674 1,531 5 257 4 610,038 18,864 32338393
63 Morocco 8,224 208 7,364 652 15 223 6 305,953 8,296 36881658
64 Cameroon 7,908 212 4,735 2,961 28 298 8 26497531
65 Azerbaijan 7,553 88 4,149 3,316 66 745 9 328,385 32,407 10133277
66 Australia 7,265 5 102 6,706 457 3 285 4 1,632,116 64,054 25480378
67 Guatemala 7,055 263 252 22 1,261 5,542 5 394 14 31,427 1,756 17892493
68 Finland 6,981 323 5,800 858 6 1,260 58 201,000 36,280 5540198
69 Honduras 6,327 172 258 8 712 5,357 13 639 26 21,540 2,177 9893859
70 Sudan 6,081 359 2,014 3,708 139 8 401 9 43775253
71 Tajikistan 4,529 48 2,673 1,808 476 5 9522265
72 Uzbekistan 4,352 21 17 3,354 981 7 130 0.5 748,555 22,387 33436477
73 Senegal 4,328 49 2,588 1,691 15 259 3 49,180 2,943 16711294
74 Djibouti 4,207 28 1,877 2,302 4,262 28 35,165 35,627 987030
75 Guinea 4,117 23 2,877 1,217 24 314 2 14,407 1,099 13106296
76 Luxembourg 4,039 110 3,899 30 1 6,459 176 88,051 140,818 625281
77 DRC 4,016 85 537 3,394 45 1 89353804
78 Hungary 4,014 6 548 2 2,284 1,182 21 415 57 210,749 21,813 9661789
79 Ivory Coast 3,739 36 1,818 1,885 142 1 31,549 1,198 26330544
80 Nepal 3,448 13 467 2,968 118 0.4 241,254 8,290 29100465
81 Haiti 3,334 262 51 1 24 3,259 293 4 7,357 646 11393320
82 Thailand 3,119 7 58 2,973 88 1 45 0.8 468,175 6,708 69789262
83 El Salvador 3,104 89 55 2 1,361 1,688 92 479 8 108,924 16,798 6484160
84 Gabon 3,101 21 833 2,247 13 1,396 9 16,730 7,529 2221930
85 North Macedonia 3,025 153 1,646 1,226 34 1,452 73 36,325 17,436 2083379
86 Greece 2,997 180 1,374 1,443 9 287 17 193,929 18,601 10425978
87 Kenya 2,767 84 752 1,931 7 52 2 97,340 1,813 53686542
88 Bulgaria 2,727 16 160 1,548 1,019 12 392 23 90,329 12,994 6951380
89 Bosnia and Herzegovina 2,606 159 1,968 479 4 794 48 69,654 21,223 3281977
90 Venezuela 2,377 22 487 1,868 84 0.8 1,343,336 47,233 28440650
91 Somalia 2,334 83 441 1,810 2 147 5 15860043
92 Croatia 2,247 104 2,126 17 2 547 25 68,740 16,738 4106705
93 Cuba 2,191 83 1,862 246 3 193 7 118,488 10,461 11327028
94 Mayotte 2,079 25 1,523 531 12 7,634 92 8,150 29,926 272336
95 Kyrgyzstan 2,032 25 23 1 1,445 564 5 312 4 127,051 19,496 6516817
96 Ethiopia 2,020 27 344 1,649 32 18 0.2 142,960 1,246 114755497
97 Estonia 1,940 1 69 1,683 188 1,463 52 90,620 68,316 1326481
98 Maldives 1,903 8 827 1,068 9 3,525 15 28,940 53,604 539886
99 Sri Lanka 1,835 11 990 834 1 86 0.5 76,957 3,595 21407678
100 Iceland 1,807 10 1,794 3 5,298 29 62,795 184,094 341103
101 Lithuania 1,720 6 71 1,331 318 17 631 26 335,686 123,219 2724301
102 CAR 1,634 5 38 1,591 339 1 15,881 3,292 4823971
103 Mali 1,533 90 873 570 76 4 3,483 172 20206890
104 Slovakia 1,530 2 28 1,396 106 280 5 189,575 34,724 5459483
105 New Zealand 1,504 22 1,482 0 301 4 294,848 58,945 5,002,100
106 Slovenia 1,485 109 1,359 17 714 52 84,537 40,664 2078921
107 Guinea-Bissau 1,368 12 153 1,203 696 6 1,500 764 1964631
108 Lebanon 1,331 30 768 533 6 195 4 95,154 13,937 6827207
109 Costa Rica 1,318 10 704 604 4 259 2 29,449 5,784 5091112
110 South Sudan 1,317 14 6 1,297 118 1 3,356 300 11185064
111 Equatorial Guinea 1,306 12 200 1,094 933 9 8,268 5,908 1399406
112 Albania 1,246 34 938 274 5 433 12 16,255 5,648 2877983
113 Paraguay 1,135 11 575 549 2 159 2 36,373 5,104 7126730
114 Nicaragua 1,118 46 370 702 169 7 6619345
115 Hong Kong 1,107 4 1,049 54 2 148 0.5 202,930 27,082 7493083
116 Zambia 1,089 7 912 170 1 59 0.4 28,236 1,539 18345399
117 Latvia 1,088 26 1 781 281 5 576 14 118,322 62,693 1887332
118 Tunisia 1,087 49 982 56 1 92 4 55,358 4,687 11810540
119 Madagascar 1,052 9 233 810 9 38 0.3 13,608 492 27638626
120 Mauritania 1,049 55 108 886 7 226 12 7,654 1,649 4640624
121 Niger 973 65 867 41 40 3 6,196 257 24136909
122 Sierra Leone 969 48 608 313 122 6 7965526
123 Cyprus 964 18 807 139 4 799 15 125,312 103,838 1206800
124 Burkina Faso 889 53 765 71 43 3 20860538
125 Andorra 852 51 744 57 7 11,028 660 3,750 48,539 77257
126 Uruguay 845 23 730 92 4 243 7 48,432 13,945 3472988
127 Chad 837 69 672 96 51 4 16390384
128 Georgia 810 1 13 683 114 6 203 3 67,725 16,975 3989618
129 Jordan 808 9 607 192 5 79 0.9 222,128 21,785 10196546
130 Diamond Princess 712 13 651 48 4
131 French Guiana 689 1 383 305 2 2,311 3 277 929 298111
132 Congo 683 22 210 451 124 4 5508174
133 San Marino 680 42 428 210 1 20,043 1,238 4,749 139,977 33927
134 Malta 629 9 596 24 1,425 20 75,374 170,734 441471
135 Uganda 616 96 520 13 100,402 2,200 45629898
136 Jamaica 598 2 10 405 183 2 202 3 14,586 4,927 2960364
137 Channel Islands 563 46 512 5 3,240 265 10,255 59,019 173759
138 Cabo Verde 554 5 240 309 997 9 1,307 2,352 555591
139 Sao Tome and Principe 513 12 68 433 2,344 55 175 800 218875
140 Tanzania 509 21 183 305 7 9 0.4 59606345
141 Togo 495 13 248 234 60 2 21,812 2,639 8264689
142 Yemen 484 112 23 349 16 4 120 4 29778960
143 Réunion 480 1 411 68 4 536 1 17,200 19,220 894906
144 Palestine 472 3 403 66 93 0.6 44,876 8,812 5092848
145 Taiwan 443 7 430 6 19 0.3 73,471 3,085 23814153
146 Rwanda 439 2 290 147 34 0.2 75,013 5,802 12928753
147 Malawi 438 4 55 379 3 23 0.2 6,260 328 19093535
148 Mozambique 424 2 127 295 14 0.06 14,010 449 31189854
149 Liberia 359 30 194 135 71 6 5049078
150 Mauritius 337 10 324 3 265 8 131,516 103,422 1271640
151 Isle of Man 336 24 312 0 3,953 282 5,123 60,267 85005
152 Eswatini 333 3 225 105 5 287 3 6,551 5,650 1159380
153 Vietnam 331 2 316 15 1 3 275,000 2,827 97282041
154 Montenegro 324 9 315 0 516 14 13,186 20,995 628061
155 Zimbabwe 282 4 34 244 19 0.3 52,905 3,563 14848319
156 Benin 261 3 151 107 22 0.2 40,900 3,380 12099744
157 Libya 256 5 52 199 37 0.7 9,259 1,349 6865033
158 Myanmar 243 1 6 156 81 4 0.1 39,211 721 54386691
159 Martinique 202 14 98 90 538 37 375282
160 Mongolia 194 1 75 119 15 59 16,325 4,985 3274682
161 Faeroe Islands 187 187 0 3,828 10,298 210,800 48852
162 Gibraltar 176 164 12 5,224 9,020 267,719 33692
163 Guadeloupe 164 14 144 6 1 410 35 4,975 12,434 400120
164 Cayman Islands 164 1 93 70 2,497 15 13,947 212,377 65671
165 Guyana 154 12 80 62 3 196 15 1,797 2,285 786315
166 Bermuda 141 9 114 18 2 2,264 144 7,891 126,680 62291
167 Syria 141 6 58 77 8 0.3 17469705
168 Brunei 141 2 138 1 1 323 5 20,619 47,161 437207
169 Comoros 141 2 67 72 162 2 868283
170 Cambodia 126 123 3 1 8 23,879 1,430 16703435
171 Suriname 122 1 9 112 208 2 1,165 1,987 586293
172 Trinidad and Tobago 117 8 108 1 84 6 3,409 2,436 1399209
173 Bahamas 103 11 62 30 2 262 28 2,194 5,583 393000
174 Aruba 101 3 98 0 946 28 2,179 20,414 106738
175 Monaco 99 4 93 2 1 2,524 102 16,200 413,012 39224
176 Barbados 92 7 81 4 1 320 24 5,900 20,532 287354
177 Angola 91 4 24 63 1 3 0.1 10,000 305 32787913
178 Burundi 83 1 45 37 7 0.08 382 32 11863908
179 Liechtenstein 82 1 55 26 2,151 26 900 23,609 38121
180 Sint Maarten 77 15 61 1 1 1,797 350 470 10,970 42844
181 French Polynesia 60 60 0 214 4,262 15,178 280806
182 Bhutan 59 11 14 45 77 19,539 25,341 771051
183 Macao 45 45 0 69 648742
184 Saint Martin 41 3 33 5 1 1,062 78 614 15,898 38621
185 Botswana 40 1 23 16 17 0.4 24,006 10,223 2348277
186 Eritrea 39 39 0 11 3543127
187 Namibia 31 2 16 15 1 12 4,943 1,948 2537711
188 St. Vincent Grenadines 27 16 11 243 638 5,752 110918
189 Antigua and Barbuda 26 3 20 3 1 266 31 246 2,513 97877
190 Gambia 26 1 21 4 11 0.4 1,907 791 2411580
191 Timor-Leste 24 24 0 18 1,568 1,191 1316689
192 Grenada 23 22 1 2 204 3,516 31,256 112491
193 Curaçao 21 1 15 5 128 6 985 6,004 164051
194 New Caledonia 20 19 1 70 7,065 24,762 285320
195 Belize 19 2 16 1 48 5 1,741 4,384 397127
196 Laos 19 18 1 3 8,607 1,184 7268436
197 Saint Lucia 19 18 1 103 1,204 6,559 183575
198 Dominica 18 16 2 250 534 7,419 71975
199 Fiji 18 18 0 20 2,431 2,713 896032
200 Saint Kitts and Nevis 15 15 0 282 408 7,673 53175
201 Falkland Islands 13 13 0 3,744 535 154,090 3472
202 Greenland 13 13 0 229 2,288 40,307 56764
203 Turks and Caicos 12 1 11 0 310 26 192 4,964 38682
204 Vatican City 12 12 0 14,981 801
205 Montserrat 11 1 10 0 2,204 200 61 12,220 4992
206 Seychelles 11 11 0 112 98309
207 MS Zaandam 9 2 7
208 Western Sahara 9 1 6 2 15 2 596267
209 British Virgin Islands 8 1 7 0 265 33 167 5,527 30218
210 Papua New Guinea 8 8 0 0.9 4,646 520 8935183
211 Caribbean Netherlands 7 7 0 267 424 16,179 26207
212 St. Barth 6 6 0 608 137 13,873 9875
213 Lesotho 4 2 2 2 1,515 708 2141162
214 Anguilla 3 3 0 200 41 2,734 14994
215 Saint Pierre Miquelon 1 1 0 173 5796
Total: 7,106,010 23,814 406,395 1,314 3,467,367 3,232,248 53,745 911.6 52.1