How strict is your country’s lockdown? Researchers at Oxford University use 17 variables to boil it down to one number
LONDON—Aditya Lolla was working on a book about modern politics in a log cabin in Hungary when the coronavirus pandemic hit.
Returning to his native India and casting about for ways to help, he received an email from Oxford University, his alma mater, in mid-March: Would he like to help build an index that would measure the strictness of government lockdowns around the world?
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