ABSTRACT
Covid-19 is one of the biggest pandemics in the history of mankind. It has kept the modern world hostage for more than one and a half years now. Strict lockdown is creating more havoc in the minds of everybody. The decision of exiting from a lockdown and deciding the kind of strictness needed as per the scenario is not an easy task for any administration. This paper provides a new approach to estimate the seriousness of the situation to strategize the exit from lockdown. There are many mathematical models to handle uncertainty such as fuzzy set, rough set, soft set, generalizations of these models, and their hybrid models. In this paper, a decision-making application using the notion of a fuzzy soft set is provided to assess the seriousness of the corona situation, which helps to decide on lockdown relaxations. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.