Abstract
By 2020, the world was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic that caused hundreds of deaths, in almost all countries. In times of a global health crisis, it is urgent to study, in the field of political science, the policies for coping with the pandemic formulated and implemented by national and subnational governments. This research aims to analyze and stimulate the debate on the measures to restrict economic and social activities triggered by the Government of the Brazilian Federal District in the fight against COVID-19 between February 28th and August 5th, 2020. The evaluation is that there was a misalignment between the evolution of the indicators of cases and deaths in the Brazilian capital and the dynamics of imposing and easing restriction measures over time. This dissociation is analyzed in the light of literature on policy diffusion. Thus, the first measures to restrict activities in the Brazilian Federal District were premature due to emulation of policies that were already adopted around the world at the time.
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