Violation of lockdown norms and peaks in daily number of positive cases to COVID-19 in Italy

Gabriele Ruiu, Maria Ruiu

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    Abstract

    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.
    Original languageEnglish
    Number of pages10
    JournalEmerald Open Research
    Volume2
    Issue number25
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 13 May 2020

    Keywords

    • Covid19
    • lockdown
    • Italy
    • contagion

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