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Striking set of charts here. Makes clear how badly the U.S., among others, are doing compared to places like New Zealand and Greece, which were both proactive.
(Thanks to Jerry Dworkin for the pointer.)
Related, albeit not comprehensive, this collection of various countries' emergency legislation compiled at Lexology: https://tinyurl.com/y7db9r2r Viewing might require registration of a free Lexology account.
If the UK, US and Canada don't sort things out quickly, and Australia and New Zealand stay the course, there will probably be a huge shift of Asian international students from the former to the latter — maybe not as soon as this autumn, but probably beginning in 2021.
In relation to Mike Otskua's comment: one thing that Australia (and New Zealand) did was – ban travel from China (and then other Asian countries, and then all countries) much sooner, and, while universities are pushing hard to reduce this (as they depend, already, very heavily, on foreign students) it's pretty clear that the success of these measure has depended on closing borders. So, opening them up, while it's being contemplated, is so far well down the line. It's possible that Australian and New Zealand universities will be able to open up to foreign students sooner, but for now, they will just be glad if they can manage to get "their own" students to come back – and that is not being assumed, at all.
What Matt says is correct BUT Australia and New Zealand *may* be open for business for overseas students in 2021 *on condition that the students live in quarantine for a fortnight on arrival*. If this can be arranged it may save the financial bacon of the many Aussie and Kiwi universities that have over-invested in the overseas market (which is not true of all of them).
I have high hopes of teaching reasonably populous classes SAFELY face to face in the second semester (which starts in July) But the students will all be domestic.
Incidentally there are also high hopes for the New Zealand film industry in 2021 (or earlier) and for similar reasons. We have got the skills to do a lot of the work here and if the virus has been effectively eliminated, directors and leading actors can come over here, self-isolate for a couple of weeks and then emerge to make movies safely in the normal way. But with Kiwi crews & extras of course.
Overseas tourism however is likely to remain on hold until an effective vaccine has been discovered and disseminated. Not many will be willing to come to NZ for a visit if it involves sitting in a motel room for a couple of weeks before they can go outside. But it is only on this condition that overseas visitors are likely to be admitted. Students on the other hand will be here for the long haul and may be prepared to put up with a fortnight's inconvenience for the sake of (what used to be) a normal student experience.
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