Here, we conducted a retrospective analysis using police-recorded crime data in the UK to examine the impact of COVID-19 restrictions and changes in human activity on fraud. Results indicate that following the onset of the lockdown, the number of recorded fraud cases increased by 28.5%, ...
Dates of lockdown for countries in our sample. Empty CellLockdown CountryStartEndLength (in days) Argentina 19/03/2020 242 Brazil 05/05/2020 195 Chile 25/03/2020 236 Colombia 25/03/2020 31/08/2020 159 France 17/03/2020 10/05/2020 54 Germany 21/03/2020 05/05/2020 45 Italy 23/02...
LockdownStringency IndexGlobal Health & Security IndexObjectives: The objective of this paper is to examine the influence that various contextual variables have upon the number of deaths due to COVID-19, across theSocial Science Electronic Publishing...
Meanwhile, the latter had been regulated only by the local government of Province of Papua [7] before the regulation of PSBB was set up by the Health Minister. The dates of these lockdown-like policies were 6 May to 25 June (PSBB in Bandung/West Java), 24 April to 22 May (PSBB ...
Covid-19 lockdowns have improved the ambient air quality across the world via reduced air pollutant levels. This article aims to investigate the effect of the partial lockdown on the main ambient air pollutants and their elemental concentrations bound to PM2.5 in Hanoi. In addition to the PM...
We report data from a window starting 8 weeks before the lockdown and ending 8 weeks after the lockdown in each MSA to explore how the behavior of workers changed. Table 1 Lockdown dates. Full size table Digital communication and remote work Theorizing about how employees might have responded...
We propose a machine learning procedure to identify structural breaks in the time series of COVID-19 cases. We consider the case of Italy, an early-affected country that was unprepared for the situation, and detect the dates of structural breaks induced by three national lockdowns so as to ...
Initial dates of lockdown and nonessential retail reopening in each country were different among countries, and there was a demonstration of a decrease in trial numbers except in Italy and South Korea. Figure 3. Monthly trends in the commencement of new oncology trials according to countries from...
The dates of the restrictions are shown in Figure 1, and for a full description, see the supplementary materials (Table S1). On this basis, we focused on the following phases: Figure 1. Description of the pre-lockdown and post-lockdown phases. ▪ Pre-lockdown (from 1 November 2019 ...
After entering Italy, the coronavirus (COVID-19) spread fast. The strict lockdown implemented by the government during the Spring 2020 helped to slow down the outbreak. However, in the following months the country had to face four new harsh waves of contagion. As of January 1, 2025, 198,...