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Oxford University has launched an online tool for tracking and comparing the policy responses of governments around the world tackling the coronavirus outbreak.
Developed by Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government, the Oxford Covid-19 Government Response Tracker is available online and currently contains data from 73 countries, including China, South Korea, Italy, UK, Canada and the US.
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The tracker is expected to help researchers understand whether increasingly strict measures affect the rate of infection, and identify what causes governments to implement stricter or less strict measures.
The Oxford Covid-19 Government Response Tracker systematically records government responses worldwide and aggregates the scores into an index that enables users to explore the variation in government responses.
This includes publicly available information on 11 indicators (S1-11) of government responses to School closures, workplace closures, public event cancellation, public transport closures, public information campaigns. It also extends to Restriction on internal movements, International travel controls, Fiscal measures Monetary measures, emergency investment in healthcare and
Investment in vaccines.
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Anna Petherick, departmental lecturer in public policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, told The Eye Of Media.Com:
”Our essential objective is about monitoring different government policies. We have 30 different policies depending on how stringent they are. We create an index out of it. We can use this data to see which policies are being used and we are also looking at why governments are adopting these policies.
We also combine different data with additional sources of information that indicate the extent to which people are actually abiding by the new policies. We have 128 graduate students between us so we can read every primary language. As news unfolds in other countries, we can get the interpretation quickly
”We have amazing different conference calls. One of the things we are looking at is how quickly the number of cases is rising and how stringency changes. If you look at Italy for example, as the number of cases or deaths go up, the stringency goes up in a straight pattern. However, in the Uk, as the cases goes up, there seems to be a lag before anything happens.
The data can be useful in helping decision makers and public health professionals assess the effectiveness of various government responses.
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NHSX is also reported to be working on an app that will allow people to report symptoms of coronavirus with a view to allowing the health service to track who has been in contact with the virus.”
However, Hale added: “We believe the data we have collected can help decision makers and public health professionals examine the robustness of government responses and provide a first step into understanding exactly what measures have been effective in certain contexts, and why.”
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