Qatar has very low death to infection ratio. How does it do it?

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

infected: 38,651
killed: 17

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

 

[Fawadqasim1]

we need to find out why? they may have a solution either in their environment, demography, healthcare or in their immune system.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ns...-two-rich-nations-keep-fatalities-below-01pct

 

[Morpheus]

Smaller population. Plus they have tons of money to spare. They are able to keep it down, because they have strict lockdown laws, and the manpower to enforce it.

 

[Aspen]

If you get caught without a mask in Qatar, you go to prison for 3 years and pay a 45k fine

 

[Fawadqasim1]

But the question remains how can there only be 17 fatalities out of about 39000 confirmed cases?

 

[Ahmad Bhutta]

Gulf countries has had other forms of Corona virus earlier called MERS they have somewhat immunity to that this covid 19 is from the same family, which they have immunity against is helping the people of GCC countries
In saudia 60,000 cases only 400 deaths

 

[Mista]

But the question remains how can there only be 17 fatalities out of about 39000 confirmed cases?

Mass testings which detect asymptomatic and mild cases, which suggest that the true fatality rate might be much lower than we see what's happening in Sweden and the UK with apparently 10%+ fatality rate. Also demographics, as most of the infected are young foreign workers like in Singapore.

Singapore has 23 deaths out of 30K cases, a fatality rate of around 0.077%.

I don't think healthcare capacity is a sufficient reason. Out of 17K active cases in Singapore currently, 'only' 8 are in serious or critical condition. Which means to say our ICU wards are far from being stretched and we're not out of ventilators, and therefore our healthcare capacity cannot be the determining factor for keeping the fatality rate low.

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