Understanding the COVID-19 response in Colombia using Mobility data

Jamie S. Jason, Donald S. Shepard, Arturo Harker Roa, Diana C. Contreras, Santiago Muñoz, Anna G. Sombrio, Diana M. Bowser
25
February
2022
Output type
Report
Location
Colombia
Focus areas
COVID-19
Topics
COVID-19
Programme
Humanitarian Research

Despite widespread mobility restrictions to control the COVID-19 pandemic, controlled impact evaluations on their effectiveness are rare. While Colombia imposed a National Lockdown, various national exceptions, additional municipal level restrictions, and irregular adherence created variations across municipalities and over time. The research team analysed how weekend and weekday mobility affected COVID-19 cases and deaths and explored other relationships.

Find out more in this UNDP working paper.

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