Table 1. Relative ranking of countries according to the severity of the pandemic and stringency of containment measures.

	Rank
	Cases	Deaths	Stringency index
Italy	1	1	1
France	4	2	2
UK	6	3	5
Netherlands	5	4	4
Portugal	2	5	3
Denmark	7	6	6
Germany	3	7	7

Note 1: Cases and deaths refer to total confirmed COVID-19 cases and COVID-19 attributed deaths (per 1 million people). Stringency index refers to degree of strictness of government response to COVID-19 (measured between 0–100).

Note 2: The rankings are based on data collected from the source [13, 14] as of April 12, 2020