• 00:00There's a number of factors that you would imagine contributed to China falling down these rankings. Yeah that's right. I mean we look at 10 data points which will feed into the Covid Resilience Score and they are looking at what is the best place and the worst places to be in the Covid pandemic when it comes to everyday life business. We're looking at community mobility access to vaccines and of course cases. And you have seen these outbreaks flaring in China. They're not huge but they are leading to quite a lot of restrictions obviously lockdowns. The one in Shanghai that we're now gradually easing out of. And so across the board you are seeing quite a lot of restriction as China refuses to move on from the pandemic. Quite a different story here in the US with the CDC planning to stop reporting suspected cases of Covid. What do we know. Yeah I mean this shifting into this sort of more permanent crouch when it comes to Covid living alongside a disease that's going to be with us going forward. And so they're reflecting that in the way that they calculate and look at the data stopping calculating suspected cases. I mean we have seen definitely a drop overall in many countries in reporting of Covid cases as rapid tests become more widespread. People just aren't recording that they've had Covid but still outbreaks are flaring because of that on Micron and it's sub variance that that keep coming into play. It's interesting here in Australia even though it's almost become a non issue as far as headlines are concerned you're seeing a pretty high number of deaths and cases and we're going into winter as well. Yeah I mean it's very interesting with the resilience ranking that we did see quite a lot of places that said well early on in the pandemic with their border curbs with sort of very closed economies keeping Covid out there. Now living alongside it though they have very very high almost universally vaccination rates. They are starting to see Covid almost for the first time rips through their populations. That is leading to lower levels of deaths of course than we saw early on in the pandemic. But there are deaths and there are a lot of cases particularly Australia New Zealand even Singapore to some extent places that are really seeing their first real unbridled waves of Covid this year.
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