A University of Oxford professor suggested that refraining from imposing lockdowns to combat the coronavirus might have been more effective than the various lockdowns seen across the world.

“I think the epidemic has largely come and is on its way out in this country, so I think it would definitely be less than 1 in 1,000 (0.1%) and probably closer to 1 in 10,000 (0.01%),” Sunetra Gupta, professor of theoretical epidemiology at Oxford, said about the virus in the United Kingdom during an interview this week.