这个国家因为新冠灭亡!地球上没有感染新冠的国家只剩2个!
截至目前,全球累计新冠肺炎确诊人数已经超过了5亿多,死亡人数超过600多万,可见疫情的可怕程度。
而且到现在,全球每天的新冠确诊人数还在不断增加,疫情还没有得到很好地控制,甚至还有一个国家因为疫情而灭亡了:赫特河公国。
赫特河公国(Principality of Hutt River)
Hutt River's origins as a micronation date back to 1970, when Leonard Casley claimed he'd exploited a legal loophole to create the principality in an isolated part of Western Australia, 500 kilometers (310 miles) north of state capital Perth. (CNN)
赫特河公国作为一个私人国家,位于西澳大利亚珀斯以北500公里,成立于1970年,当时伦纳德·卡斯勒利用法律漏洞使赫特河省成为一个独立公国。
But the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, coupled with a giant tax bill, has forced the principality to announce it will finally surrender to Australia. (CNN)
但是,受新冠疫情的影响,赫特河公国赖以为生的观光业收入锐减,无力偿还澳洲的税金,不得不宣布解散国家,回归澳洲。
全球各国疫情形势不容乐观,人类与病毒抗争的路还需要继续坚持,当然,在这场抗疫战争中,也有一些国家“幸免于难”,成为疫情时代下的“净土”。
目前,全球只有两个国家新冠病例零确诊,那就是图瓦卢和土库曼斯坦。
图瓦卢(Tuvalu)
In Tuvalu, from 3 January 2020 to 10:14pm CEST, 20 May 2022, there have been 0 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 0 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 4 April 2022, a total of 12,528 vaccine doses have been administered. (from WHO)
2020年1月3日至2022年5月20日晚上10:14 (欧洲东部时间),图卢瓦新冠病毒确诊病例为0,死亡病例0。截至2022年4月4日,共接种了12,528剂疫苗。
图瓦卢作为世界上第四小的国家而闻名(前三名分别是梵蒂冈、摩纳哥、瑙鲁),它是太平洋上大洋洲波利尼西亚分区域的一个岛国,人口仅有一万多人,陆地总面积仅为26平方公里。且地势低,最高海拔仅有4米,加之近年来全球变暖、海平面上升的原因,图瓦卢正面临被淹没的风险。
谈起图瓦卢的特色,还属该国传统的社区制度。
The traditional community system still survives to a large extent on Tuvalu. Each family has its own task, or salanga, to perform for the community, such as fishing, house building or defence. The skills of a family are passed on from parents to children. (From Wikipedia)
在很大程度上,图瓦卢的传统社区制度仍然存在。每个家庭在社区内都要承担某项任务(“salanga”),如捕鱼、建房或防御,每个家庭所拥有的技能一代代相传。
Most islands have their own community-owned shops similar to convenience stores, where canned foods and bags of rice can be purchased.(From Wikipedia)
大多数岛屿都有自己的社区商店,类似便利店,在那里可以买到罐装食品和袋装大米。
图瓦卢是世界上最不发达国家之一,人口稀少,土地贫瘠,自然资源贫乏,主要产业为捕鱼业及旅游业,但因为地理位置偏远,所以游客数量也不多。也正是由于图卢瓦这种“与世隔绝的优势”,让其避免了疫情的侵袭。
土库曼斯坦(Turkmenistan)
In Turkmenistan, from 3 January 2020 to 10:14pm CEST, 20 May 2022, there have been 0 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 0 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 5 March 2022, a total of 7,140,000 vaccine doses have been administered. (from WHO)
2020年1月3日至2022年5月20日晚上10:14 (欧洲东部时间),土库曼斯坦新冠病毒确诊病例为0,死亡病例0。截至2022年4月4日,共接种了7,140,000剂疫苗。
土库曼斯坦是一个中亚内陆国家,北部和东北部与哈萨克斯坦、乌兹别克斯坦接壤,西濒里海与阿塞拜疆、俄罗斯相望,南邻伊朗,东南与阿富汗交界。该国人口约为600万,是亚洲人口最稀少的国家之一。
这个国家还有一些引人注意的特色:
①土库曼斯坦70%国土是沙漠。
荒漠和沙子是土库曼 斯坦的景观特色。
②土库曼斯坦人带的羊皮帽子,如果你看见谁带上这种羊皮帽子,那他来自土库曼斯坦没错了。
③土库曼斯坦人钟爱的Plov(手抓饭),里面有肉、胡萝卜、米饭,类似中国的炒饭!
与图瓦卢不同,土库曼斯坦地理位置并不偏远,那是什么原因使其幸免于疫情呢?
这还要归因于土库曼斯坦的国家性质,该国是一个永久的中立国,国家封闭程度甚至超过朝鲜,鲜与国际往来,是世界上最少被拜访的国家之一。疫情期间,土库曼斯坦更是关闭了所有与接壤国家的边界线,杜绝疫情传播。
然而,也有消息说土库曼斯坦国家新冠病例零确诊只是该国领导人的对外声称。
Turkmenistan is one of only a handful of countries, including North Korea, which says it has no coronavirus cases. But reports suggest it is experiencing its third and possibly strongest wave of Covid-19. (BBC news)
土库曼斯坦是包括朝鲜在内的、少数几个声称没有新冠肺炎病例的国家之一。但一些报道显示,该国正在经历第三波、也可能是最强的疫情浪潮。
Sayahat Kurbanov was suffocating. He gasped for air as if he were running a marathon, the pain in his chest unbearable. He had all the symptoms of coronavirus. (BBC news)
Sayahat Kurbanov快要窒息了,像跑马拉松一样大口喘气,胸口疼痛难忍。他已经表现出新冠肺炎的所有症状。
The problem was he was in Turkmenistan, where patients like him officially do not exist. When he called an ambulance last month the doctor told him he had pneumonia and should go to hospital urgently. Mr Kurbanov (not his real name) knew that the country's doctors referred to Covid cases as pneumonia. (BBC news)
问题是他在土库曼斯坦,在那里像他这样的病人“不许存在”。上个月他叫救护车时,医生告诉他得了肺炎,应该赶紧去医院。他知道,在这个国家,医生把新冠肺炎只是确诊为肺炎而已。
其实,早在今年3月份,全球范围内没有疫情的国家还有4个,除了上述的图瓦卢和土库曼斯坦,还有朝鲜、瑙鲁共和国。
虽然邻近韩国、中国、俄罗斯等早已经出现疫情的国家,朝鲜(North Korea)的疫情防控一向做得很好。朝鲜一向坚持自给自足,少与国际来往,也一度成为最神秘的国家之一。但是今年5月12号,朝鲜疫情突然爆发。
朝鲜(North Korea)
Last week, North Korea announced the first confirmed case of Covid-19 inside the country. Since then, we have learned of at least 1.72 million "fever cases," with about half in quarantine and dozens of deaths so far. (CNN,May 19, 2022)
上周,朝鲜宣布了国内首例新冠肺炎确诊病例。此后,至少有172万“发烧病例”,其中约一半被隔离,到目前为止已有数十人死亡。
The Omicron BA.2 variant was found in at least one of the deaths. With symptomatic cases accounting for roughly 7% of the population of 25 million, the outbreak is a disaster for North Korea. (CNN,May 19, 2022)
在至少一名死者身上发现了奥密克戎BA.2变种。2500万人口中,有症状的患者约占7%,疫情对朝鲜来说是一场灾难。
同样,瑙鲁共和国(The Republic of Nauru)也是近期才发现新冠肺炎确诊病例。
瑙鲁(The Republic of Nauru)
瑙鲁位于中太平洋,由一独立的珊瑚礁岛构成,陆地面积仅有21.1平方公里,人口也仅有1.1万人,是世界上最小的岛国。
与图瓦卢一样,瑙鲁也是由于位置偏远,少与外界往来,因此一直未被疫情侵袭。但在今年的3月,瑙鲁宣布国内出现了确诊病例。
His Excellency President Lionel Aingimea announces first two COVID-19 cases in Nauru detected in quarantine from a passenger flight on 31 March. (from the government of Nauru)
莱昂内尔·安吉梅奥总统阁下宣布瑙鲁于3月31日在一架客运飞机上发现了两例COVID-19病例。
Both persons are well and do not have any symptoms and are being cared for by the medical team at the negative pressure COVID Ward at the RON Hospital. (from the government of Nauru)
两人状态还可以,没有出现任何症状,已经被送往罗恩医院接受治疗。
1. 世界卫生组织官网:https://www.who.int/
2. 维基百科:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
3. BBC news: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-58583212
4. CNN news:
(1)https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/australia-micronation-hutt-river-principality/index.html
(2)https://edition.cnn.com/2022/05/19/opinions/north-korea-covid-19-outbreak-deaths-park/index.html
5. 全球仅剩4个国家,没有新冠疫情,他们到底是怎么做到的? https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Q6XXRiMhUjiKl4z3cw0Veg
6. 瑙鲁政府官网:http://naurugov.nr/government-information-office/media-release/nauru-records-first-two-cases-of-covid-19-in-quarantine.asp
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