Hmm but surprisingly New Zealand did beat.
Not really.
Based on China’s figures, they have death rate of 3 per million and infection rate of 60 per million.
New Zealand is death rate of 5 per million and infection rate of 390 per million.
So why did china’s Figure is so miraculously low despite being the origin and epicenter of the outbreak with a 5 week uncontrolled spreading duration while all others had some partial control either early or immediately known.
That is becos china took a discount on its real figures, arbitrarily decide what it want to report, never knew its own infection rate and decided to declare zero cases when it cannot tahan economical lockdown. Reluctant to massively lockdown again, the numbers cannot be declared. China didn’t know that after it declares zero cases, the numbers continue to burn in many countries including russia, which exposes the impossibility of China’s figures.
No one else with massive numbers ever go down so fast even with lockdown. And even those with much smaller initial numbers due to custom lockdown and more sparsely populated performed poorer than china.