The adverse situation in the Americas (not featuring on this graph) and the USA (shown on this graph) are very concerning.
New York, New Jersey and Connecticut are sensibly imposing a two-week quarantine on visitors from states with high infection rates.
A reader comment from "Homeboy" on the FT indicates why some countries may have got into this situation.
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This is the singular benefit of this Covid nightmare, it completely and ruthlessly exposes the incompetent, the unprepared and those lacking vision to adapt. Trump, Johnson and Bolsonaro are the same lazy and tactless chancers who hooked onto the populist bandwagon to gain Leadership. The reality is their governments are full of unskilled sycophants who do not have the technocratic skills to run a Nation.
Populism doesn’t work as much as hate never wins. The wheel is millennia old and there’s no point in reinventing it - we always self-correct, albeit painfully and over time.
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https://www.ft.com/content/e3a23551-...b-11dd1f74020f