2.TSAI ING-WEN. The Taiwanese president has been in control of all planes entering Wuhan since December. It increased the production of masks, which are now exported to Europe.
3.JACINDA ARDERN. As for the Christchurch massacre, the Prime Minister of New Zealand immediately put the country in jail and managed to contain the pandemic in ten days.
4.JAKOBSDIST CATS. The Prime Minister of Iceland commissioned free tests for its citizens, an action that attracted scientists and researchers to learn about the virus and its spread.
5.SANNA MARIN. The youngest leader of a government in the world, with a government dominated by women, the Prime Minister of Finland decided that the children should stay at home.
6.ERNA SOLBERG. The Prime Minister of Norway gave priority to communication and delivered a speech directly to the children to reassure them by explaining the situation.
7.METTE FREDERIKSEN. Like the Norwegian counterpart, the Danish leader held a press conference on children's issues and reopened schools, breaking all records.
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Four are ordinary Nordics, who always do everything well: Iceland, Finland, Norway, Denmark; there is no surprise here.
Two are the little ones, Taiwan and New Zealand. But the two are quite close to the epicenter of pandemic that is crushing the whole world. On the Chinese island headed by Tsai Ing-wen, there are only six dead so far, the measures taken in a timely manner have avoided the great danger, and now from there masks are exported all over the world. In the oceanic state of Jacinda Ardern after closing the borders and establishing quarantine for all returnees from abroad, there are only 9 deaths across the country so far.
Seventh Germany is neither small nor exotic, and its performance has been excellent and still is. A combination of seriousness, organization and great resources available, which is certainly not just because of Angela Merkel.
Success dates back to the compulsory health insurance system established in 1883 by Bismarck and then reformed by Schröder with the 2020 agenda. .
In addition to an incomparable availability of intensive care beds in Europe, the network of outpatient clinics called MVZ operated, growing in a few years from 1,500 to 3,173. (Perhaps this is Achilles' heel for Lombardy's health).
But Merkel took advantage of all the possible time, with prudence and determination, what BoJo did not do, she immediately invited people to take her seriously, bypassing the long phase of denial and insecurity that elsewhere turned out to be fatal.
Of course, it is not necessary to have a leading woman to do her best. For example, Belgium is one of the hardest hit countries, with nearly 4,500 deaths, despite Sophie Wilmes' call to lead an emergency anti-coronavirus government.
It cannot be said that countries become better if they are run by women. But perhaps it can be said that those countries are run by women because they are better places, and have more open and consolidated selection systems. If we were to go into a 1930s-style depression, we would feel more comfortable with a female leader: there are no women on the list of twentieth-century tyrants. / Corriere della Sera
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