[SyneRyder]

>I've yet to see a great explanation for why no Asian nations have been hit...

You've missed Singapore there, which has been hit extremely badly on a per-capita basis. For number of confirmed cases, they're 8th in the world. They're not getting mentioned as often because their very good healthcare means they have few deaths - less than 1%, unlike Sweden [1] where currently 45% of people who catch the virus die from it.

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/

[manfredo]

Your link says Sweden has 33,188 cases and 3,992 deaths. Furthermore, it looks like this is out of confirmed cases of people checked into hospitals, thus ignoring the overwhelming majority of asymptomatic cases, and symptomatic but non-serious cases that don't result in hospital stays.

To put this in perspective, this is 10x higher than the initial estimate of 1-3% death rate, and 0.4 to 0.8% fatality rate after random testing became more prevalent.

[SyneRyder]

You might have missed further down the page: Sweden only has 8,963 closed cases, of which only 4,971 (55%) recovered. 3,992 (45%) have died. The rest of the 33,188 cases have still not yet recovered from the virus.

But you're right that even if you take the 3,992 deaths out of 33,188 confirmed COVID-19 cases in Sweden, their 10% death rate is still almost 10x higher when compared to Australia (1.5%) and much more compared to Singapore (0.08%).