Brazil's handling of the coronavirus pandemic has been ranked the world's worst, while New Zealand topped the class, according to research published by a leading Australian think tank on Thursday. China where the virus first emerged was not included in the rankings because of what the think tank described as a lack of publicly available data on testing.
SYDNEY: Brazil's handling of the coronavirus pandemic has been ranked the world's worst, while New Zealand topped the class, according to research published by a leading Australian think tank on Thursday.
Portugal and UK included in planned Germany travel ban
Updated / Thursday, 28 Jan 2021
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Queues of ambulances outside a hospital in Lisbon
Germany is planning to ban most travellers from countries hardest hit by Covid-19 variants in a bid to stop the strains from reversing recent progress on lowering infections. At the moment within the government, we are coordinating towards the aim of refusing inbound travel from mutation areas, said Interior Minister Horst Seehofer. We are concentrating these travel restrictions on mutation areas, that is at the moment Britain, Portugal, South Africa and Brazil, he said.
It comes as Portuguese Prime Minister Antonia Costa has said the country is in a terrible phase of the coronavirus pandemic.