It will further ease quarantine for travelers in November. The country has inoculated millions of people with booster shots, relaxed domestic restrictions and reopened borders to all vaccinated foreign tourists with a five-day quarantine. While the region’s pioneering strategies of longer dose intervals and largely limiting quarantine-free entry to immunized people kept fatalities low even as delta spread, places like the U.K., Belgium and Ireland are already seeing a worrying uptick in cases as the weather cools.Īmong the rising stars, Chile’s stunning turnaround-from the lower half of the Ranking to top eight within a month-reflects the overall recovery of South America, once the worst-hit region in the world. Compiled using 12 data indicators that span virus containment, quality of healthcare, vaccination coverage, overall mortality and progress toward restarting travel, the Ranking captures which of the world’s biggest 53 economies are responding best-and worst-to the same once-in-a-generation threat.Įurope’s success will be put to the test as vaccines face their first real Covid winter. The Covid Resilience Ranking is a monthly snapshot of where the virus is being handled the most effectively with the least social and economic upheaval. It also benefited from a jump in gross domestic product thanks to the success of multinationals operating there, though that may mask a lackluster domestic economy. Hospitalizations are at about a quarter of what they were in a January outbreak. Having fully vaccinated more than 90% of adults and weakened the link between infection and deaths, the country is reopening cautiously, allowing bars and restaurants to resume normal opening hours for inoculated customers. 1 for a second month, even as cases rise. Yet those that have embraced travel, open borders and a sense of normalcy to become the best places to be in the pandemic are about to face their greatest test yet.Įuropean nations continue to dominate the top rungs of Bloomberg’s Covid Resilience Ranking this month, joined by the United Arab Emirates and Chile, which vault into the top 10 by deploying similar strategies that grant the vaccinated more freedoms.

Not one single country, anywhere in the world, is corruption-free.Reopening is gathering pace across the world, with deaths set to fall to an almost one-year low in October. Sixty-eight per cent of countries worldwide have a serious corruption problem. It’s about people’s lives, and it’s a global problem.īased on expert opinion, the Corruption Perceptions Index measures the perceived levels of public sector corruption worldwide. Put simply – public sector corruption is about so much more than missing money. Others include human trafficking, child mortality, poor education standards, environmental destruction and terrorism. It’s just one example of the devastation fuelled by corruption. Like all exploitation, child labour remains a sad reality in environments where citizens are trapped in poverty and corrupt officials can be paid off. Unofficially a bribe paid to the right official can mean exceptions are made. Officially child labour is illegal in Bangladesh.

Instead of going to school, she spends her days sorting bottles at a recycling factory. She lives in Dhaka, Bangladesh – one of 114 countries that scores below 50 out of 100 in our 2015 Corruption Perceptions Index, indicating serious levels of public sector corruption.

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