Table 1 Characteristics of the three countries in relation to COVID-19 controls
Characteristics | Target countries | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) | Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) | Republic of Palau (ROP) | ||
Income group | Lower middle income | Upper middle income | Upper middle income | |
Political type | Decentralization | Decentralization | Decentralization | |
Education system | Decentralized system | Decentralized system | Decentralized system | |
Period of declaration of public health emergency | 2020/01/31–2022/05/31 | 2021/02/18–2022/09/30 | 2020/03/17–2021/02/10 | |
Period of country border closure | 2020/03–2022/07/31 | 2020/01/24–2022/09/30 | 2020/03–2021/04 | |
Start date of vaccination for SARS-CoV-2 | 2021/01/04 | 2020/12/29 | 2021/01 | |
First case in the country | 2021/01/08 | 2022/08/08 | 2021/05/31 | |
Public notice for dominant variant of SARS-CoV-2 | ||||
Alpha variant | ||||
Delta variant | 2021/09/16 | |||
Omicron variant | 2021/12/01 (Pohnpei State Government) | |||
Period of official notification for school closure | 2020/03-2022/08 | 2022/08/08-2022/09/12 (Private schools), 2022/08/08-2022/09/19 (Public schools) | 2020/03/23–2020/07/31 | |