Covid-19: How tight are the restrictions in major economies?

Seven largest economies are now seeing a median increase in cases from a decline earlier

India has more relaxed Covid-19 restrictions than most of the world’s major economies.

It ranks sixth among the seven largest economies based on the Oxford Covid-19 Government Response Tracker (Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford). The index measures the strictness and number of government policies.  The latest available data for each country was collected from tracker Our World in Data.  Germany was among the ones which has seen the sharpest increase in stringency since the time around November 25th. This is when the new variant was announced to the world.

Germany has detected cases of the Omicron Covid-19 variant