Where does India stand globally in enforcing Covid curbs

India's score on the Oxford Covid-19 Government Response Tracker's stringency index has gone up over the last few days. The stringency index is a "composite measure based on nine response indicators including school closures, workplace closures and travel bans, rescaled to a value from 0 to 100".

With almost every state reinforcing curbs to check the spread of coronavirus, India's score on the Oxford Covid-19 Government Response Tracker's stringency index has gone up over the last few days. In fact, after falling for months, the score is now back at the same level as seen on January 1, 2021. Developed by Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, the stringency index is a "composite measure based on nine response indicators including school closures, workplace closures and travel bans, rescaled to a value from 0 to 100". The tracker collects data from 180 countries and is updated twice a week. India's score has jumped from 57.87 (March 9, 2021 - April 2, 2021) to 74.54 on April 3. It then dropped slightly in the next few days and hovered around the 70-mark and remained at 69.91 from April 5 onwards. On April 10, with a score of 69.91, India was placed at the 32nd position out of 102 countries for which data was available as on April 17.