An overview of the psychological, environmental, and economic impacts of the lockdown imposed in countries due to COVID-19 is discussed in the fourth section. The results obtained from the method mentioned in the methodology section are discussed in the third section. The second part gives detailed information about the methodology of the study. The first section deals with the literature review of studies related to COVID-19 pandemic. The correlation tests were used for data analysis based on unconstrained (normal) and constrained (Tukey-lambda). Countries that do not constantly enforce the lockdown are not included in this study. This study used COVID-19 data from 49 countries to analyze the impact of the lockdown to slow down the COVID-19 outbreak. The aim of this study is to analyze statistically that the lockdown plays an important role in preventing COVID-19 and to show its psychological effect on people. Lockdown is at the forefront of these restrictions. To prevent this pandemic, governments have started to apply bans under many social restrictions. Due to the lockdown, economic activities have stopped reducing carbon emissions.
COVID-19 increased the air quality in many parts of the world with the lockdown imposed during the pandemic process. The lockdown has created the ground for renewal of the environment, especially with the closure of factories and the reduction of both private and public transportation vehicles used. Chakraborty and Maity have emphasized that the lockdown has both environmental and economic impact on countries. Some countries have extended the lockdown by many days due to COVID-19 continues its influence intensely on the public. Countries have set the days when the lockdown started and ended according to the COVID-19 effect on their public. Countries have taken very strict restrictions such as vacation for schools, working from home, quarantine for regions with high number of cases, and most importantly, lockdown to slow down the COVID 19 outbreak. Īpproximately 214 countries reported the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases. Scientists warn that the COVID-19 virus can reach any age group quickly. There is a high level of participation in the "stay at home" call by official institutions. For this reason, the spread of this virus is slower in societies that have the habit of washing hands and pay attention to the general hygiene rules. The most important of these is washing hands. The most basic measure to reduce the spread of coronavirus or to prevent infection is to follow hygiene rules.
The COVID-19 outbreak is spreading very fast every day and more than 4 million people have been actively infected by this virus so COVID-19 restrictions are applied in almost all areas of life. In other words, environmental factors play an important role in the transmission of this virus. In this type of spreading, a sick person is exposed to this microbe to people around him by coughing or sneezing. Respiratory diseases are spread by droplet scattering. It was understood in time that the virus, which is transmitted from animal to human, can spread from human to human.Īlthough the molecular mechanism of COVID-19 transmission pathway from human to human is still not resolved, the principle of transmission of respiratory diseases is similar in general. The source of this virus is thought to be the Huanan seafood market in Wuhan, China. This form of the virus was called Coronavirus 2019, or COVID-19, since it appeared in 2019. The studies revealed that the cases that emerged were a new type of coronavirus that was not previously described. The application of lockdown by governments is also thought to be effective on psychology, environment and economy besides having impact on Covid-19.Ī disease similar to pneumonia cases began to emerge in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China in December 2019. This study offers initial evidence that the COVID-19 pandemic can be suppressed by a lockdown. The lockdown, one of the social isolation restrictions, has been observed to prevent the COVID-19 pandemic, and showed that the spread of the virus can be significantly reduced by this preventive restriction in this study.
The lockdown days was significantly correlated with COVID-19 pandemic based on unconstrained (r = −0.9126, F-ratio = 6.1654 t-ratio = 2.40 prob > .0203 with 49 observations) and based on Tukey-lambda (r = 0.7402, λ = 0.14). COVID-19 cases and lockdown days data were collected for 49 countries that implemented the lockdown between certain dates (without interruption). This study aims to analyze the effect of lockdown days on the spread of coronavirus in countries. COVID-19's daily increasing cases and deaths have led to worldwide lockdown, quarantine and some restrictions.
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