Almost all of the cases in the last year were caught in customs/quarantine. Very few cases of community spread, and those were handled through immediate harsh lockdowns and world class contact tracing.
But they now have a significant delta outbreak. They're doing all the right things - lockdown, isolation, contact tracing, testing, quarantine - but nobody knows if it will be enough to stop Delta's higher rate of spread. There isn't a country outside Asia with a better shot at this, but it's going to be close.
They're still very early in their vaccine program, but moving quickly. 80,000 doses administered yesterday in a country of 5 million.
And just a reminder because I keep being inundated with conspiracy posts about ulterior motives behind vaccines and mandates -which do not yet exist-
No one is being vaccinated without their consent. Comparing vaccine mandates to Nazis experimenting on concentration camp inmates against their will ... I guess we know what people think of our health care providers.
Crimes require means, motive, opportunity. What possible motive would hospitals, universities, businesses, etc. have for requiring unnecessary vaccinations and/or masking, knowing they'll lose employees, donors, customers, students, etc.?
"It's about control." Who's behind this vast conspiracy, seeking control for its own sake? Why are they hesitant to adopt vaccine mandates? When they implement mandates, why do they keep including opt-out provisions? Why so slow to impose mask mandates and so quick to lift them? Where are the jackbooted thugs we were told would be showing up at our house to force the vaccine on us? Gosh, it's almost like the nefarious "they" were hoping it wouldn't come to this.
Beware cherry-picked studies and out-of-context quotes from experts. You can find apparent scientific support for all sorts of nonsense if you're willing to look hard enough for confirmation of what you've already decided to believe. You can always find a pre-COVID study that's been misinterpreted, a contrarian paper in a for-profit vanity journal, a misleading magazine article, or an outlier op-ed by a physician who's forgotten they specialized in oncology, obstetrics, or ophthalmology and wants 5 minutes of fame or re-election to political office.