Fig. 1
From: Lockdown stringency and employment formality: evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa
Source: Our World in Data (Ritchie et al. 2020); Oxford Covid-19 Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT) dataset (Hale et al. 2020). Notes: This figure presents the 7-day rolling average of confirmed daily COVID-19 cases and the government policy stringency index values over time. The stringency index measures the strictness of policies that restrict people’s behaviour, calculated using data on nine indicators of government containment and closure policy and public information campaigns. The index ranges from 0 to 100 with higher scores indicative of stricter policy responses
Trajectories of COVID-19 cases and lockdown stringency in South Africa, 2020 and 2021. Author’s own arrangement.