Violation of lockdown norms and peaks in daily number of positive cases to COVID-19 in Italy [version 1; peer review: 2 approved]
Italy has been the first Western Country to suffer a massive outbreak of COVID-19. Starting from the 11st of March 2020, the Italian Government approved a series of emergency restrictive measures to limit people’s movement and social contacts. The aim of this short paper is to test if the number of...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Emerald Publishing
2020-05-01
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| Series: | Emerald Open Research |
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| Online Access: | https://emeraldopenresearch.com/articles/2-25/v1 |
| Summary: | Italy has been the first Western Country to suffer a massive outbreak of COVID-19. Starting from the 11st of March 2020, the Italian Government approved a series of emergency restrictive measures to limit people’s movement and social contacts. The aim of this short paper is to test if the number of norm-violations (related to people’s movement) might contribute to the peaks of new COVID-19 positives after few days. We show that peaks in the violations of the lockdown norms correspond to peaks in new positive cases about 6 days later. |
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| ISSN: | 2631-3952 |