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    "link": "https://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/research/research-projects/oxford-covid-19-government-response-tracker",
    "retrievedDate": "2024-07-30",
    "additionalInfo": "OxCGRT collects publicly available information on indicators of government response. These indicators take policies such as school closures, travel bans, etc. and record them on an ordinal scale. The remainder is financial indicators, such as fiscal or monetary measures.\n\nOxCGRT measures the variation in governments\u2019 responses using its COVID-19 Government Response Stringency Index. This composite measure is a simple additive score of nine indicators measured on an ordinal scale, rescaled to vary from 0 to 100. Please note that this measure is for comparative purposes only, and should not be interpreted as a rating of the appropriateness or effectiveness of a country's response.\n\nIt also includes a 'COVID-19 Containment and Health Response' index which is based on the metrics used in the 'Stringency Index' plus testing policy, contact tracing, face coverings and vaccine policy.\n\nThe specific policy and response categories are coded as follows:\n\nSchool closures:\n0 - No measures\n1 - recommend closing\n2 - Require closing (only some levels or categories,\ne.g. just high school, or just public schools)\n3 - Require closing all levels\nNo data - blank\n\nWorkplace closures:\n0 - No measures\n1 - recommend closing (or work from home)\n2 - require closing (or work from home) for some\nsectors or categories of workers\n3 - require closing (or work from home) all but essential workplaces (e.g. grocery stores, doctors)\nNo data - blank\n\nCancel public events:\n0- No measures\n1 - Recommend cancelling\n2 - Require cancelling\nNo data - blank\n\nRestrictions on gatherings:\n0 - No restrictions\n1 - Restrictions on very large gatherings (the limit is above 1,000 people)\n2 - Restrictions on gatherings between 100-1,000 people\n3 - Restrictions on gatherings between 10-100 people\n4 - Restrictions on gatherings of less than 10 people\nNo data - blank\n\nClose public transport:\n0 - No measures\n1 - Recommend closing (or significantly reduce volume/route/means of transport available)\n2 - Require closing (or prohibit most citizens from using it)\n\nPublic information campaigns:\n0 -No COVID-19 public information campaign\n1 - public officials urging caution about COVID-19\n2 - coordinated public information campaign (e.g. across traditional and social media)\nNo data - blank\n\nStay at home:\n0 - No measures\n1 - recommend not leaving house\n2 - require not leaving house with exceptions for daily exercise, grocery shopping, and \u2018essential\u2019 trips\n3 - Require not leaving house with minimal exceptions (e.g. allowed to leave only once every few days, or only one person can leave at a time, etc.)\nNo data - blank\n\nRestrictions on internal movement:\n0 - No measures\n1 - Recommend movement restriction\n2 - Restrict movement\n\nInternational travel controls:\n0 - No measures\n1 - Screening\n2 - Quarantine arrivals from high-risk regions\n3 - Ban on high-risk regions\n4 - Total border closure\nNo data - blank\n\nTesting policy\n0 \u2013 No testing policy\n1 \u2013 Only those who both (a) have symptoms AND (b) meet specific criteria (eg key workers, admitted to hospital, came into contact with a known case, returned from overseas)\n2 \u2013 testing of anyone showing COVID-19 symptoms\n3 \u2013 open public testing (e.g. \u201cdrive through\u201d testing available to asymptomatic people)\nNo data\n\nContract tracing\n0 - No contact tracing\n1 - Limited contact tracing - not done for all cases\n2 - Comprehensive contact tracing - done for all cases\nNo data\n\nFace coverings\n0- No policy\n1- Recommended\n2- Required in some specified shared/public spaces outside the home with other people present, or some situations when social distancing not possible\n3- Required in all shared/public spaces outside the home with other people present or all situations when social distancing not possible\n4- Required outside the home at all times, regardless of location or presence of other people\n\nVaccination policy\n0 - No availability\n1 - Availability for ONE of the following: key workers/ clinically vulnerable groups / elderly groups\n2 - Availability for TWO of the following: key workers/ clinically vulnerable groups / elderly groups\n3 - Availability for ALL the following: key workers/ clinically vulnerable groups / elderly groups\n4 - Availability for all three, plus partial additional availability (select broad groups/ages)\n5 - Universal availability",
    "dataPublishedBy": "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). \u201cA global panel database of pandemic policies (Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker).\u201d Nature Human Behaviour. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01079-8"
}