{"id":7841,"date":"2020-05-11T14:56:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T09:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=7841"},"modified":"2020-05-11T14:56:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T09:26:00","slug":"stringency-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/stringency-index\/","title":{"rendered":"Stringency Index"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"hero-section\" data-type=\"type-1\" data-alignment=\"left\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Relevance: Prelims: Polity: Governance<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d18x2uyjeekruj.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/string-1.jpg\" alt=\"What is Stringency Index? \u2013 Civilsdaily\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>\u2022 A Stringency Index <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>created by Oxford University<\/strong><\/span> shows how <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>strict a country\u2019s measures were responding to the Covid-19 outbreak,<\/strong><\/span> and at what stage of the spread it enforced these.<\/p>\n<p><b>About:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>It is among the metrics being used by the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 It tracks 17 indicators of government response. These indicators examine containment policies such as school and workplace closings, public events, public transport, stay-at-home policies.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Stringency Index is a number from 0 to 100 that reflects these indicators. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>A higher index score indicates a higher level of stringency.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Key findings:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Stringency Index has found that India indeed had one of the strongest lockdown measures in the world \u2014 at a 100 score since March 22.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 It was relaxed slightly on April 20 after the government eased norms for certain workplaces in regions outside the red zones.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 In countries such as the UK, the US, and India, the Oxford graphs find that the death curve has not flattened after strictest measures were enforced.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>For more such notes, Articles, News &amp; Views Join our Telegram Channel.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"telegram Link\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Click the link below to see the details about the UPSC \u2013Civils courses offered by Triumph IAS.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" title=\"Courses available\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php\">https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: Prelims: Polity: Governance Why in news? \u2022 A Stringency Index created by Oxford University shows how strict a country\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-7841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7842,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7841\/revisions\/7842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}