Coronavirus: global lockdown in infographics – Comparing national restrictions

Movement restrictions imposed in 185 countries were surveyed by the Oxford Covid-19 Government Response Tracker. Here, we visualised the project’s data to reveal which nations applied the longest and most stringent lockdown regimes between 1st January and 1st September 2020 – and compared those measures against the severity of the pandemic in each country, in terms of cases per million people.

Infographic 1 in a series of four exploring the world in lockdown.  Next 

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