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18.06.2020 - 18:53

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coronavirus pandemic, a report has shown.Fresh analysis from the Economist's Intelligence Unit found the UK's programmes, healthcare, and death toll were ranked "poor" out of list of 21 OECD countries.The extensive study was weighted to take into account of all countries initial risk factors and then ranked them out of four.

Preexisting risk factor include obesity, the age of the population and the number of international arrivals were also taken into account.The most significant reason for the UK's low score was its levels of excess deaths and poor performance on mass testing.

The UK was joint second alongside Italy and Spain with a low score of 2.22, surpassed only by Belgium with 2.11. The authors write: "The governments of Australia,.

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