Are lockdown measures effective against COVID-19?

S Kharroubi, F Saleh - Frontiers in public health, 2020 - frontiersin.org
As the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic progresses, countries around the
world are increasingly implementing a range of responses that are intended to help prevent …

Effect of national and local lockdowns on the control of COVID-19 pandemic: a rapid review.

S Caristia, M Ferranti, E Skrami, E Raffetti… - Epidemiologia e …, 2020 - europepmc.org
Objectives to describe and compare the effectiveness of national and local lockdowns in
controlling the spread of COVID-19. Methods a rapid review of published and grey literature …

The efficacy of lockdown against COVID-19: a cross-country panel analysis

V Alfano, S Ercolano - Applied health economics and health policy, 2020 - Springer
Background There has been much debate about the effectiveness of lockdown measures in
containing COVID-19, and their appropriateness given the economic and social cost they …

Global lockdown: An effective safeguard in responding to the threat of COVID‐19

BK Verma, M Verma, VK Verma… - Journal of evaluation …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Rationale, aims, and objectives The recent outbreak of coronavirus (COVID‐19) has infected
around 1 560 000 individuals till 10 April 2020, which has resulted in 95 000 deaths …

Lockdown measures in response to COVID-19 in nine sub-Saharan African countries

N Haider, AY Osman, A Gadzekpo, GO Akipede… - BMJ Global …, 2020 - gh.bmj.com
Lockdown measures have been introduced worldwide to contain the transmission of COVID-
19. However, the term 'lockdown'is not well-defined. Indeed, WHO's reference to 'so-called …

Lockdown during COVID-19: the Greek success

D Moris, D Schizas - in vivo, 2020 - iv.iiarjournals.org
Background/Aim: Coronavirus is an ongoing pandemic challenging health systems
worldwide. The aim of this report was to evaluate the effectiveness of lockdown in different …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of lockdowns on the spread of COVID-19 in Saudi Arabia

S Alrashed, N Min-Allah, A Saxena, I Ali… - Informatics in Medicine …, 2020 - Elsevier
Epidemiological models have been used extensively to predict disease spread in large
populations. Among these models, Susceptible Infectious Exposed Recovered (SEIR) is …

Impact of the stringency of lockdown measures on covid-19: A theoretical model of a pandemic

C Violato, EM Violato, EM Violato - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Background How effective have lockdowns been at reducing the covid-19 infection and
mortality rates? Lockdowns influence contact among persons within or between populations …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of national containment measures on decelerating the increase in daily new cases of COVID-19 in 54 countries and 4 epicenters of the pandemic …

CKH Wong, JYH Wong, EHM Tang, CH Au… - Journal of medical …, 2020 - jmir.org
Background: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a worldwide epidemic, and various
countries have responded with different containment measures to reduce disease …

Is lockdown effective in limiting SARS-CoV-2 epidemic progression?—a cross-country comparative evaluation using epidemiokinetic tools

B Mégarbane, F Bourasset, JM Scherrmann - Journal of General Internal …, 2021 - Springer
Background To date, the risk/benefit balance of lockdown in controlling severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) epidemic is controversial. Objective We …