Singapore has been lauded for its response to the coronavirus pandemic and until recently, it had kept its schools open, as Australia has. But the countries differ on other measures.
— closures of schools, workplaces or public transport, cancellations of events, restrictions on travel or internal movement, and public messaging — and four financial indicators, covering fiscal and monetary measures and public spending on emergency healthcare and vaccines.
The authors say:"Where data for one of the seven indicators are missing, they contribute"0" to the index ... Our conservative approach therefore"punishes" countries for which less information is available, but also avoids the risk of over-generalizing from limited information." On the day Singapore recorded its first case, it had a stringency score of 29 out of 100 and Australia scored 7.By March 15, the most recent data available for Singapore, it scored 38 while Australia remained on 29.
Australia's strongest measures have been introduced since that date, and accordingly its score has risen progressively to 71 on April 2. No comparable figures are yet available for Singapore.— produced by the Johns Hopkins Centre for Health Security, among others — ranked Singapore 11th in the world for countries most prepared to respond to an epidemic, and Australia 10th.
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