Why do some countries still have next to no recorded outbreaks

[rayg]

Why do some countries still have next to no recorded outbreaks of coronavirus?

While coronavirus sweeps around the world, taking thousands of lives, there are glaring regions that have no – or very few, compared to their population – known cases.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/why-some-countries-no-coronavirus

[togor]

Lack of testing (eg Africa) or government decision to suppress statistics (eg Russia)

[Tuna]

Not enough Chinese tourists to spread it there.....yet.

[barretcreek]

Some researchers have tentatively found a race based link to susceptibility, similar to a racial disparity in SARS and MERS infection rates. Stay tuned for further updates on that.

[Sunray]

Nobody who lives in Third Word countries can afford to travel. And nobody who doesn't live in Third Word countries goes there. There's also a lot of assorted ill health in the Third World already.
So far, there have been 167,307 cases World wide in 156 countries and territories with 6,455 dead and 76,588 or 92% fully recovered. That's out of a World Population of approximately 7.8 BILLION. 167,307 is about .022% of the total World population. Feels like a great deal of media hype to me.
An estimated 290,000 to 650,000 people die in the world due to complications from seasonal influenza (flu) viruses. This figure corresponds to 795 to 1,781 deaths per day due to the seasonal flu.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

[lyman]

Not enough Chinese tourists to spread it there.....yet.

or cargo delivered

[togor]

Sunray your stats are cold comfort to someone with parents in a Seattle-area nursing home. And diluting the current infection rates against the planet's population is not anything a serious epidemiologist, (or forestry manager in fire season) would do. The question is, does anyone have natural immunity to this thing? So far the answer is no. To continue the wildland fire analogy, the goal is to limit the size of blaze so as to not outstrip the containment resources available on the ground.

[dryheat]

Pneumonia used to be called The Old Mans Friend. Maybe the old guys didn't think so.