from what i read earlier, out of all the countries with more than 20 cases and 0 deaths, Cambodia is the country with the largest population with 16million 0 deaths, Laos was second with 7million and 0 deaths
it might be down to the number of tests taken, Cambodias 318k tests to Vietnams 1.5million
although Tests/Population Cambodia has percentage wise taken more tests per million than Vietnam has, Cambodia 23.1k to Vietnams 14.6k p/mil

Maybe it isn't started in China...

phuketrichard wrote: ↑Thu Jan 28, 2021 2:02 pm best site for updates on numbers of infected/deaths

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

yeah thats the site ive always used,
i just noticed that the UK and USA have finally started announcing how many recovered cases theyve had, all of last year it was always N/A (now its Spain/Netherlands/Sweden that now are N/A)

SternAAlbifrons wrote: ↑Thu Jan 28, 2021 1:26 pm

theKid wrote: ↑Thu Jan 28, 2021 1:06 pm Coronavirus: Cambodian scientists find close match for pathogen in samples collected in 2010
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science ... h-pathogen

^^^ further confirmation.

Ever since the start of this pandemic the evidence for the origins of this virus is all heading in the one direction
- ie, exactly as the virologists that have been studying these viruses for 30 years predicted.

So far anyway.

lol, as predicted, evidence will be 'found' that the virus did not originate in china

xandreu wrote: ↑Thu Jan 28, 2021 12:10 pm In light of the UK now officially having had the worst response to the pandemic of any nation in the world, and as such, having the highest death rate per 100,000

Where are you getting this from? https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ suggests UK is #5.

1 Gibraltar 2,078
2 San Marino1,913
3 Belgium 1,802
4 Slovenia 1,658
5 UK 1,515

UK might be a bigger country than the other 4, but it's not as though Belgium is tiny.

xandreu wrote: ↑Thu Jan 28, 2021 12:10 pm In light of the UK now officially having had the worst response to the pandemic of any nation in the world, and as such, having the highest death rate per 100,000, we are now seeing lists in the British media of which countries have done rather well in comparison.

Vietnam comes in at number 2 on the list, just behind New Zealand, with - at the time of writing and according to the WHO's own statistics, 1551 cases and 35 deaths. Yet Cambodia, with 460 confirmed cases and zero deaths (again, WHO's own figures) is nowhere to be seen. On any list. Anywhere in the British media.

Why would this be?

Perhaps its counted as a sub-region of China, rather than a separate country ?

xandreu wrote:

Bitte_Kein_Lexus wrote: ↑Thu Jan 28, 2021 12:52 pm Because Cambodia is a tiny country of like 16 million people which is hardly ever talked about in Western (or other international) media regardless of Covid. Why isn't Belize being talked about here?!

It's still an independent sovereign nation. If Belize had had zero deaths and an infection rate that warranted it to be in the top 10, I'd be asking the same question. (It hasn't. It's had 11,788 cases and 293 deaths as of two days ago)

I get that Cambodia is a small country, but that shouldn't be reason to exclude it from statistics. Surely when you plot out a chart like this, you input every single country into the computer, ask it to sort out who's had the lowest number of cases / deaths, and print whatever it spits out.

It's as if nobody is even putting Cambodia into the model in the first place. I'm curious to know why.

There have been a few articles posted here and elsewhere as mentioned. The reason it's not "front page news" is likely that:
1. They're more concerned with local events.
2. They take the local stats with a big grain of salt. Most still see Cambodia as a highly corrupt, "poor" backwater country. Half the articles about Cambodia that feature in western newspapers usually peddle the same old tired cliches, so it's not unsurprising that they wouldn't do any real "journalism" regarding new developments.

Bitte_Kein_Lexus wrote: ↑Fri Jan 29, 2021 3:43 pm Most still see Cambodia as a highly corrupt, "poor" backwater country. Half the articles about Cambodia that feature in western newspapers usually peddle the same old tired cliches, so it's not unsurprising that they wouldn't do any real "journalism" regarding new developments.

I do despair at the quality of journalism when it comes to international affairs. I had a journalist friend who lived in several SE Asian countries and had a good grasp of local politics and issues, and yet the only bits of copy he could ever get his editor to publish were ones written around a Western narrative or perspective, ie what the editor thought his readers would react to. This wasn’t even a tabloid rag or anything, it was a highly respected agency.

There is a good reason why Cambodia never features in lists of countries with low incidence of the virus. It clearly demonstrates that lockdowns, masks, and all the ridiculous measures taken by western governments have no effect whatsoever. This does not sit well with governments whose objective is to use the pandemic to increase their power and control over their people, so they pretend Cambodia does not exist. By doing nothing other than destroying the tourist industry and children's education (for no good reason), Cambodia is actually number 1 in the world for avoiding the virus with Laos number 2. It is ridiculous to say that New Zealand is best when they have had some deaths in a much smaller population while Cambodia has had none. New Zealand is best only of the countries that believe that draconian measures are the answer.

The study by the University of Grenoble clearly established that there is no relationship between government measures and the progress of the virus and Cambodia is proof of the truth of that.