The effect of non-pharmaceutical policy interventions on COVID-19 transmission across three cities in Colombia.

ABSTRACT: Governments across the globe have implemented different strategies to handle the COVID-19 pandemic. A national mandatory quarantine was the most applied policy tool. While there are studies that tested the effectiveness of a national mandatory quarantine, the question about the effectiveness of additional quarantine policies is not yet answered. In this study we focus on three large cities in Colombia (Bogota, Medellin and Cali) with similar socio-economic conditions but made use of different COVID-19 prevention measures. We examine whether different non-pharmaceutical policy interventions (NPIs) conducted in these three cities are effective against the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. We inspect the effect of the quarantine policies restricting exit from home by sex, ID number, whereby on

SUBMITTER: Poppe A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9521598 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature