Hong Kong comes in last among the 53 economies ranked for a second month as the city continues to see deaths from its worst Covid outbreak ever.
We measure the initial severity of the pandemic in a country by its day 25 number of cases per million population.
Each L1 theme is composed of several categories L2 of the coding scheme that contain subcategories L3 , which are further subdivided into group codes L4.
For guiding policy and informing public accountability during the pandemic, we propose mid-pandemic performance rankings based on doubling time in days of the total number of cases and deaths in a country.