Violation of lockdown norms and peaks in daily number of positive cases to COVID-19 in Italy
Open Access
- 13 May 2020
- journal article
- Published by Emerald in Emerald Open Research
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.Keywords
Funding Information
- Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca
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