COVID-19 Lockdowns: Most and Least Restricted Countries during Pandemic

Which countries have been most restricted by their governments?

This bar chart race shows the most restricted countries/territories from January 2020 until August 31st 2021, monthly average.

0 = No Restrictions, 100 = Strictest

Variables included: School and workplace closures, cancelling of public events, restrictions on gatherings, closing of public transport, stay at home policy, internal movements and international travel control, face covering, testing amd contact tracing policy, vaccination policy and campaigning to public.

Source:
Thomas Hale, Noam Angrist, Rafael Goldszmidt, Beatriz Kira, Anna Petherick, Toby Phillips, Samuel Webster, Emily Cameron-Blake, Laura Hallas, Saptarshi Majumdar, and Helen Tatlow. (2021). “A global panel database of pandemic policies (Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker).” Nature Human Behaviour. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01079-8

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