Made a 'pinned tweet' on October 6th: https://twitter.com/drandreaskruger/status/1251191862012063746
Correction because #tests:
Sudan&Yemen = unknown
Afghanistan = too few
3 excluded. Thx @KonProg!

Probably Niger & Liberia underestimate case numbers; their testing is as bad as in e.g. Japan or USA (but with much lower prevalence) so we keep'em in the ...

10 possible champions:
10 countries have -so far- handled #Covid19 SUCCESSFULLY 👏👏👏 perhaps more but these:

China Mongolia Taiwan
Vietnam Thailand
Niger Burundi Liberia
NewZealand Australia

And comparison: USA & Europe.

Thx @OurWorldInData & @Worldometers & @amcharts.
3 time series + table + map:
Mass testing has become a major part of how the Chinese government plans to eradicate coronavirus and keep the economy on track. 

Mass Testing: China Doubles Down on Its Covid-19 Control Plan https://www.wsj.com/video/mass-testing-china-doubles-down-on-its-covid-19-control-plan/4704D627-8E48-4EEC-B25A-4CC6CA118895.html
Zero cases zeros deaths in Victoria, Australia https://twitter.com/alexandraphelan/status/1320737911772483586
~1.6 billion people (21%) people live in #ZeroCovid countries: https://twitter.com/yaneerbaryam/status/1321733617857499136
Success is question of political will, not external constraints: https://twitter.com/tomaspueyo/status/1322808643494977536 So stop apologizing why YOU cannot do it, and instead study and learn, and then model your politics after the most able countries. Sounds like a plan?
Civilised Vietnam is beating barbaric USA, again 😉 https://twitter.com/DrZoeHyde/status/1326205648392970240
Detailed analysis https://ourworldindata.org/covid-exemplar-vietnam

" #Vietnam’s #ContactTracing strategy ...uniquely comprehensive, based on tracing degrees of contact from F0 (infected person) through F1 (close contact with F0 or suspected of infected), F2 (close contact with F1), all the way up to F5"
>200 days zero domestic #Covid19 cases https://twitter.com/Farbod_E/status/1327697214525689856
Taiwan number of #Covid19 deaths: https://twitter.com/MaxCRoser/status/1330446339944173570
... dagegen Totalversagen hinsichtlich "Strafe" in zB Deutschland: https://twitter.com/rezomusik/status/1330485742431318024 einfach als Kontrast zu den humaneren, zivilisierteren, intelligenteren, und sozialeren Regierungen einiger LĂ€nder in diesem #ZeroCovid Thread.
DE vs #Taiwan: Echte, wirksame, strikte QuarantĂ€ne (zB ohne Hotelzimmer SchlĂŒssel) nach Ankunft; interessanter Thread ĂŒber die Ankunft in einem Pandemie-INTELLIGENTEREN Land: https://twitter.com/katharintai/status/1332230088859951105
Lol https://twitter.com/Belex70/status/1332685520850350081
Australia #ZeroCovid celebrated: https://twitter.com/ChampChong/status/1335218340919328769
Taiwan informative video https://twitter.com/drandreaskruger/status/1338341065091411970
Between "green zones" travel freely, an old and compelling concept: https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1338354910644072448
Conceptual upgrade how to fight a pandemic successfully. Good thread: https://twitter.com/drandreaskruger/status/1338266658004209664
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