New Zealand, Vietnam top pandemic response list, Japan lags

Asia-Pacific nations have been the most successful at containing the coronavirus pandemic, an Australian think tank said Thursday, with New Zealand and Vietnam ranking first and second in their response, with Japan lagging far behind.The Sydney-based Lowy Institute used publicly available data to evaluate and rank 97 countries and a region in their coronavirus response in the 36 weeks that followed their 100th confirmed case.Notably, China was not included in the ranking due to what the think tank said was a "lack of publicly available data on testing."Fourteen-day rolling averages were cal…READ FULL ARTICLE