Table 1
The number of days and average daily percent change during the outbreak period and the mitigation period, by country.
| Rank | Country | Cluster | Whole period | Outbreak period | Mitigation period | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # Days | # Days | ADPC | # Days | ADPC | |||
| 1 | United States | 1 | 146 | 77 | 29.27 | 70 | –0.60 |
| 2 | Brazil | 2 | 111 | 111 | 11.70 | – | – |
| 3 | Russia | 2 | 137 | 103 | 13.24 | 35 | –0.73 |
| 4 | India | 2 | 138 | 138 | 10.32 | – | – |
| 5 | United Kingdom | 1 | 137 | 72 | 16.37 | 66 | –2.20 |
| 6 | Spain | 1 | 136 | 60 | 29.58 | 77 | –4.25 |
| 7 | Italy | 1 | 137 | 56 | 18.47 | 82 | –3.67 |
| 8 | Peru | 2 | 102 | 87 | 9.84 | 16 | –2.82 |
| 9 | France | 1 | 144 | 86 | 12.01 | 59 | –5.10 |
| 10 | Iran | 3 | 118 | 43 | 16.03 | 76 | –0.47 |
| 11 | Germany | 1 | 141 | 70 | 12.40 | 72 | –4.26 |
| 12 | Turkey | 3 | 97 | 33 | 25.68 | 65 | –2.06 |
| 13 | Chile | 1 | 105 | 105 | 8.06 | – | – |
| 14 | Mexico | 2 | 109 | 109 | 8.61 | – | – |
| 15 | Pakistan | 3 | 112 | 112 | 9.81 | – | – |
| 16 | Saudi Arabia | 2 | 106 | 106 | 8.23 | – | – |
| 17 | Canada | 1 | 142 | 92 | 9.00 | 51 | –2.76 |
| 18 | Bangladesh | 3 | 100 | 100 | 8.04 | – | – |
| 19 | China | 2 | 146 | 29 | 7.65 | 118 | –5.27 |
| 20 | Qatar | 1 | 108 | 92 | 8.88 | 17 | –1.53 |
| 21 | South Africa | 2 | 103 | 103 | 8.92 | – | – |
| 22 | Belgium | 1 | 133 | 72 | 14.36 | 62 | –4.31 |
| 23 | Belarus | 2 | 109 | 82 | 9.17 | 28 | –0.75 |
| 24 | Colombia | 2 | 102 | 102 | 8.42 | – | – |
| 25 | Sweden | 1 | 137 | 137 | 5.60 | – | – |
| 26 | Netherlands | 1 | 110 | 55 | 11.09 | 56 | –3.26 |
| 27 | Ecuador | 3 | 107 | 55 | 10.26 | 53 | –2.97 |
| 28 | Egypt | 3 | 123 | 123 | 6.27 | – | – |
| 29 | United Arab Emirates | 1 | 139 | 118 | 4.76 | 22 | –2.73 |
| 30 | Singapore | 1 | 145 | 93 | 8.23 | 53 | –2.03 |
| 31 | Indonesia | 2 | 106 | 106 | 6.96 | – | – |
| 32 | Portugal | 1 | 106 | 32 | 23.39 | 75 | –1.24 |
| 33 | Kuwait | 2 | 113 | 83 | 5.82 | 31 | –1.64 |
| 34 | Argentina | 2 | 105 | 105 | 7.68 | – | – |
| 35 | Ukraine | 3 | 105 | 105 | 8.60 | – | – |
| 36 | Switzerland | 1 | 112 | 30 | 25.25 | 83 | –4.88 |
| 37 | Poland | 1 | 104 | 104 | 6.10 | – | |
| 38 | Philippines | 2 | 138 | 123 | 5.53 | 16 | –0.55 |
| 39 | Afghanistan | 3 | 113 | 103 | 8.66 | 11 | –1.34 |
| 40 | Ireland | 1 | 108 | 47 | 17.70 | 62 | –6.68 |
| 41 | Oman | 1 | 113 | 113 | 6.98 | – | – |
| 42 | Dominican Republic | 2 | 107 | 107 | 8.56 | – | – |
| 43 | Romania | 2 | 111 | 44 | 16.68 | 68 | –0.74 |
| 44 | Panama | 2 | 98 | 98 | 5.76 | – | – |
| 45 | Iraq | 3 | 113 | 113 | 5.85 | – | – |
| 46 | Israel | 1 | 116 | 40 | 21.95 | 77 | –1.49 |
| 47 | Bolivia | 3 | 97 | 97 | 6.42 | – | – |
| 48 | Bahrain | 2 | 113 | 113 | 3.80 | – | – |
| 49 | Japan | 1 | 146 | 82 | 7.18 | 65 | –3.75 |
| 50 | Austria | 1 | 112 | 32 | 26.34 | 81 | –4.14 |
| 51 | Armenia | 2 | 107 | 99 | 5.96 | 9 | –0.41 |
| 52 | Nigeria | 3 | 109 | 109 | 7.52 | – | – |
| 53 | Kazakhstan | 2 | 95 | 83 | 4.80 | 13 | –1.29 |
| 54 | Denmark | 1 | 110 | 42 | 20.21 | 69 | –3.68 |
| 55 | Serbia | 2 | 102 | 45 | 12.22 | 58 | –2.72 |
| 56 | South Korea | 1 | 146 | 42 | 23.52 | 105 | –2.34 |
| 57 | Ghana | 2 | 94 | 62 | 7.61 | 33 | –0.52 |
| 58 | Moldova | 2 | 100 | 100 | 5.84 | – | – |
| 59 | Algeria | 3 | 112 | 93 | 6.86 | 20 | –2.86 |
| 60 | Azerbaijan | 2 | 107 | 107 | 6.19 | – | – |
| 61 | Guatemala | 3 | 94 | 94 | 6.89 | – | – |
| 62 | Czech | 1 | 107 | 31 | 20.26 | 77 | –2.13 |
[i] Abbreviation: # Days = number of days; ADPC = average daily percent change.
Cluster 1 indicates better governance, Cluster 2 indicates fair governance, and Cluster 3 indicates worse governance.

Figure 1
Least squares means and 95% confidence intervals of six dimensions of governance among three clusters of 166 countries.
Abbreviation: N = number of countries.

Figure 2
Means of period length and average daily percent change during the outbreak period and the mitigation period by governance cluster, and pairwise comparisons among governance clusters. The 95% confidence intervals were shown in parentheses.
* p < 0.05.
