India has ranked 86 in a performance index of 98 countries for their handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, said a report compiled by the Sydney-based Lowy Institute on Thursday.
India has reported more than 11 million Covid-19 cases as on January 28.
The Sydney-based Lowy Institute has collected the performance index according to which Sri Lanka was at the 10th position in handling the Covid-19 outbreak.
The performance index showed that New Zealand handled the pandemic more effectively than any other country in the world while Brazil sits at the bottom of the list.
The Sydney Morning Herald reported on Thursday that New Zealand is closely followed by Vietnam, Taiwan, Thailand and Cyprus, while the US was the fifth-worst performing country.
The Lowy Institute revealed in the report that the smaller populations, cohesive societies and capable institutions were big factors in successfully dealing with the pandemic.
The study measured a number of key indicators, including confirmed cases, deaths, cases per million people and deaths per million people.
China was not included in the study because all of its testing rates are not publicly available.
With 11,666 new Covid-19 cases getting reported in the last 24 hours on Thursday, India has continued its streak of low single-day cases, even as the overall tally mounted to 1,07,01,193, health officials said.
For the past 21 days, the country has been recording less than 20,000 new infections daily. Also, the death toll remained below the 300-mark for the past 31 days.
On January 19, India had reported 10,064 new cases, the lowest so far this year. Last year, the lowest was recorded on June 3 at 9,633 cases.
The nationwide immunisation drive began on January 16 after the approval of Covaxin and Covishield, the two Covid vaccines.
As many as 3,55,979 beneficiaries have received the first dose of Covid vaccine in the first phase so far.
(With IANS inputs)