Epidemic versus economic performances of the COVID-19 lockdown: A big data driven analysis

H Zhang, P Li, Z Zhang, W Li, J Chen, X Song… - Cities, 2022 - Elsevier
Lockdown measures have been a “panacea” for pandemic control but also a violent “poison”
for economies. Lockdown policies strongly restrict human mobility but mobility reduce does …

Top-down and bottom-up lockdown: evidence from COVID-19 prevention and control in China

X Zhang, W Luo, J Zhu - Journal of Chinese Political Science, 2021 - Springer
Utilizing national migration data regarding the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (2019-
nCoV), this paper employs a difference-in-differences approach to empirically analyze the …

Human mobility restrictions and the spread of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in China

H Fang, L Wang, Y Yang - Journal of Public Economics, 2020 - Elsevier
We quantify the causal impact of human mobility restrictions, particularly the lockdown of
Wuhan on January 23, 2020, on the containment and delay of the spread of the Novel …

Highly coordinated nationwide massive travel restrictions are central to effective mitigation and control of COVID-19 outbreaks in China

X Chen, F Fu - Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus 2019, has caused grave woes
across the globe since it was first reported in the epicentre of Wuhan, Hubei, China, in …

The economic impacts of COVID-19 and city lockdown: Early evidence from China

J Wu, X Zhan, H Xu, C Ma - Structural change and economic dynamics, 2023 - Elsevier
As the first major developing country heavily struck by the COVID-19 pandemic, China
adopted the world's most stringent lockdown interventions to contain the virus spread. Using …

[PDF][PDF] Population mobility reductions during COVID-19 epidemic in France under lockdown

G Pullano, E Valdano, N Scarpa, S Rubrichi, V Colizza - MedRxiv, 2020 - epicx-lab.com
SUMMARY On March 17, 2020, French authorities implemented a nationwide lockdown to
respond to COVID-19 epidemic emergency and curb the surge of patients requiring critical …

Lockdowns result in changes in human mobility which may impact the epidemiologic dynamics of SARS-CoV-2

N Kishore, R Kahn, PP Martinez, PM De Salazar… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
In response to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, unprecedented travel restrictions and stay-at-
home orders were enacted around the world. Ultimately, the public's response to …

[PDF][PDF] Fast and local: How lockdown policies affect the spread and severity of covid-19

JP Bonardi, Q Gallea, D Kalanoski, R Lalive - Covid Economics, 2020 - elearning.unite.it
The first death from the coronavirus, on January 11th 2020, was a 61-year-old man in China
who had purchased goods from a seafood market. In the middle of May 2020, a few months …

Economic and social consequences of human mobility restrictions under COVID-19

G Bonaccorsi, F Pierri, M Cinelli… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
In response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, several national
governments have applied lockdown restrictions to reduce the infection rate. Here we …

Factors affecting COVID-19 infected and death rates inform lockdown-related policymaking

S Roy, P Ghosh - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Background After claiming nearly five hundred thousand lives globally, the COVID-19
pandemic is showing no signs of slowing down. While the UK, USA, Brazil and parts of Asia …