Abstract
We collected COVID-19 epidemiological and epidemic control measures-related data in mainland China during the period January 1 to February 19, 2020, and empirically tested the practical effects of the epidemic control measures implemented in China by applying the econometrics approach. The results show that nationally, both traffic control and social distancing have played an important role in controlling the outbreak of the epidemic, however, neither of the two measures have had a significant effect in low-risk areas. Moreover, the effect of traffic control is more successful than that of social distancing. Both measures complement each other, and their combined effect achieves even better results. These findings confirm the effectiveness of the measures currently in place in China, however, we would like to emphasize that control measures should be more tailored, which implemented according to each specific city’s situation, in order to achieve a better epidemic prevention and control.
Highlights
During the COVID-19 outbreak, China adopted a series of the most comprehensive, thorough, and rigorous control measures, such as the “lockdown” of its cities, and it achieved successful results
As for the data used in this paper, the specific content and implementation time of the prevention and control measures comes from the information or announcements issued by the prevention and control headquarters of the prefecture-level administrative districts; the cumulative confirmed cases comes from the official release of the National Health and Health Commission; population density, and number of beds in medical institutions comes from the China City Statistical Yearbook; average temperature and relative humidity comes from the China weather website
The results show that the coefficients of the total score, traffic control, and social distancing are significantly
Summary
During the COVID-19 outbreak, China adopted a series of the most comprehensive, thorough, and rigorous control measures, such as the “lockdown” of its cities, and it achieved successful results. Cities in Hubei province were locked down successively, and other provinces in China started a first-level response one after another They gradually adopted traffic control measures such as road blockades, and suspending public transport, and introduced social distancing measures such as quarantining suspected cases, isolating confirmed cases, closing residential areas and so on. Effect of anti-epidemic measures on COVID-19 outbreak effects of these measures can contribute to the better sharing of China’s experience and can help the whole world to jointly fight the crisis These prevention and control measures can reduce the transmission rate of the virus and mitigate the epidemic. Taking a different approach than the existing literature, we divided the series of measures taken in China into two categories, traffic control and social distancing, and empirically tested the effects of these measures to explore which is more effective in what areas
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