For Financial Times, Alan Smith and David Blood created a map using the data from Oxford Covid-19 Government Response Stringency Index. This index is created by The Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT) at Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford.
As Covid-19 spread beyond China, governments responded by implementing containment measures with varying degrees of restriction. Researchers at the University of Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government have compiled data on a range of government response measures, such as school and workplace closures and restrictions on travel and gatherings, to create a stringency index.