Poland is at the bottom of the ranking of fighting the pandemic
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Poland occupies one of the last places in the ranking prepared by the Bertelsmann Foundation on dealing with the pandemic. The index, along with Poland, is closed by Hungary and Turkey.
The survey examined countries against four categories measured in terms of pandemic resilience. The categories are democratic resilience, governance, economic resilience, and the resilience of the welfare state in the first year of the pandemic. Poland ranks last in all four indices.
Index authors from the Bertelsmann Foundation, a German organization that monitors social change, argue that well-organized democracies coped with the coronavirus crisis better than those that had deficits in this area.
"We are seeing worrying developments in countries where democratic values such as media freedom, civil liberties, and the independence of the judiciary were at risk already before the crisis," the foundation's website reads.
New Zealand, Sweden, and Switzerland top the Democratic Resilience Index, which measures the functioning of basic democratic institutions. The first of these countries also took first place in the rankings of management capabilities as a result of the four-level COVID-19 alert system. In terms of the level of economies and welfare states, Sweden, Germany, and Denmark were the best prepared in the first year of the pandemic. In both of these indices, Poland was ranked 23rd.
