Oxford Study: Kosovo with strictest anti-Convidian measures in Europe

According to a foreign study, Kosovo is the strictest country in Europe in terms of anti-Condavid measures.

Kosovo (69.44 / 100) seems to be the strictest country in Europe in terms of its government's response to pandemic, while Belarus and Georgia are the softest with 8,33/100 each.

As far as the EU is concerned, the country with the highest measure is Portugal 66.2/0100, while Baltic states such as Estonia and Lithuania are with at least 19.44/100 measures.

How is the index measured?

We note the presence of policies, told Euromother Dr Anna Petherick, lecturer and one of the authors of Oxford tracker who did the research. ” The main point is that it provides this objective measure of what the different countries are doing, “it added.

To measure the severity, for example, they took into account nine indexes: from the closure of schools and jobs, transport, travel restrictions and gatherings to stay at home in demand and campaigns of public information.

Some 290 contributors update information from government officials or news reports and turn them into a ordered code system.

“If people are allowed to gather in groups of 50, it gets an assessment, if they can only gather in groups with 5, this is a more intense assessment,” explained investigative co-author Toby Phillips.

“TheHeterogenic of the government's responses is precisely why a standardized, transparent measure, compared to” is needed, argued Dr Thomas Hale, an associate professor in public policies who also worked on the project.

Are Better Measures?

The most naive idea is that to stop people from getting mixed up is the solution, but the less naive is that it's not without cost”, said Petherick, suggesting that a combination of some policies is offering the greatest health benefits.

However, the initial “overlap suggests that there is a relationship between the strictness of the policy response and the speed of the policy response with both associate with lower death,” stated Phillips.

“also exists a challenge of” blocking fatigue “, especially for populations that have no economic resources or support to maintain physical distance measures”, Hale noted.