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. 2020 Nov 25;7(1):423.
doi: 10.1038/s41597-020-00757-y.

Response2covid19, a dataset of governments' responses to COVID-19 all around the world

Simon Porcher  1
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Response2covid19, a dataset of governments' responses to COVID-19 all around the world

Simon Porcher. Sci Data. .

Abstract

Following the COVID-19 outbreak, governments all around the world have implemented public health and economic measures to contain the spread of the virus and to support the economy. Public health measures include domestic lockdown, school closures and bans on mass gatherings among others. Economic measures cover wage support, cash transfers, interest rates cuts, tax cuts and delays, and support to exporters or importers. This paper introduces 'Response2covid19', a living dataset of governments' responses to COVID-19. The dataset codes the various policy interventions with their dates at the country-level for more than 200 countries from January 1 to October 1, 2020 and is updated every month. The production of detailed data on the measures taken by governments can help generate robust evidence to support public health and economic decision making.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no competing interests.

Figures

Fig. 1
Fig. 1
Static map of the index of public health responses to COVID-19 as of April 15, 2020. The index ranges between 0 and 1, with 0 being the lowest possible value (no public health response to COVID-19) and 1 being the highest value (all potential listed policies are implemented at the national-level).
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Fig. 2
Static map of the index of public health responses to COVID-19 as of September 15, 2020. The index ranges between 0 and 1, with 0 being the lowest possible value (no public health response to COVID-19) and 1 being the highest value (all potential listed policies are implemented at the national-level).
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Fig. 3
Static map of the index of economic responses to Covid-19 as of April 15, 2020. The index ranges between 0 and 1, with 0 being the lowest possible value (none of the considered economic responses to COVID-19 is implemented) and 1 being the highest value (all potential listed economic measures are implemented).
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Fig. 4
Static map of the index of economic responses to Covid-19 as of September 15, 2020. The index ranges between 0 and 1, with 0 being the lowest possible value (none of the considered economic responses to COVID-19 is implemented) and 1 being the highest value (all potential listed economic measures are implemented).
Fig. 5
Fig. 5
Evolution of the global index of the rigidity of public health responses and the global index of economic responses. The global indexes shows that economic interventions come in a second step to face COVID-19 but become more intense as the situation evolves.
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