The pandemic has shaken up the rankings of the world’s most habitable cities, a examine launched on Wednesday confirmed, with metropolises in Australia, Japan and New Zealand leaping forward of these in Europe.
Auckland tops The Economist’s annual survey of the world’s most habitable cities in 2021 adopted by Osaka and Tokyo in Japan, Adelaide in Australia and Wellington in New Zealand, all of which had a swift response to the Covid pandemic.
“Auckland rose to the highest of the rating owing to its profitable method in containing the Covid-19 pandemic, which allowed its society to stay open and town to attain strongly,” the Economist Intelligence Unit said.
In contrast, “European cities fared particularly poorly in this year’s edition.” “Vienna, beforehand the world’s most habitable metropolis between 2018-20, fell to twelfth. Eight of the highest ten largest falls within the rankings are European cities,” in accordance with the examine.
The biggest fall overall among the European cities was the port city of Hamburg in northern Germany, which fell 34 places to 47th.
The trend was motivated by a “stress on hospital resources” which the examine mentioned elevated for many German and French cities and resulted in a “deteriorated healthcare rating”.
Pressure on European health systems also had a knock-on effect on culture and overall liveability because of restrictions on movement, the Economist said.
The most notable rise was recorded by Honolulu, Hawaii, in the United States, which came 14th in the ranking and moved up 46 places because of its containment of the pandemic and fast vaccination programme.
Damascus remains the city where life is most difficult because of Syria’s ongoing civil war.
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