lockdowndates 0.0.1

Retrieve the dates of the restrictions in countries imposed by governments around the world during the covid-19 pandemic.

lockdowndates

Retrieve the dates of the restrictions in countries imposed by governments around the world during the covid-19 pandemic.

Install

pip install lockdowndates

How to use

Single Country

ld = LockdownDates("Aruba", "2022-01-01", "2022-01-08")
lockdown_dates = ld.dates()
lockdown_dates

Fetching lockdown dates...
Fetched lockdown dates for: Aruba

	aruba_country_code	aruba_stay_at_home
timestamp
2022-01-01	ABW	2.0
2022-01-02	ABW	2.0
2022-01-03	ABW	2.0
2022-01-04	ABW	2.0
2022-01-05	ABW	2.0
2022-01-06	ABW	2.0
2022-01-07	ABW	2.0
2022-01-08	ABW	2.0

Multiple Countries

ld2 = LockdownDates(["Canada", "Denmark"], "2022-01-01", "2022-01-08")
lockdown_dates = ld2.dates()
lockdown_dates

Fetching lockdown dates...
Fetched lockdown dates for: Canada, Denmark

	canada_country_code	denmark_country_code	canada_stay_at_home	denmark_stay_at_home
timestamp
2022-01-01	CAN	DNK	1.0	0.0
2022-01-02	CAN	DNK	1.0	0.0
2022-01-03	CAN	DNK	1.0	0.0
2022-01-04	CAN	DNK	1.0	0.0
2022-01-05	CAN	DNK	1.0	0.0
2022-01-06	CAN	DNK	1.0	0.0
2022-01-07	CAN	DNK	1.0	0.0
2022-01-08	CAN	DNK	1.0	0.0

stay_at_home values:

• NaN - No data available for that date.
• 1.0 - recommend not leaving house.
• 2.0 - require not leaving house with exceptions for daily exercise, grocery shopping, and 'essential' trips.
• 3.0 - require not leaving house with minimal exceptions (eg allowed to leave once a week, or only one person can leave at a time, etc.

Available Countries

Country
Afghanistan
Albania
Algeria
Andorra
Angola
Argentina
Aruba
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Bahamas
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belarus
Belgium
Belize
Benin
Bermuda
Bhutan
Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botswana
Brazil
Brunei
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada
Cape Verde
Central African Republic
Chad
Chile
China
Colombia
Comoros
Congo
Costa Rica
Cote d'Ivoire
Croatia
Cuba
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Democratic Republic of Congo
Denmark
Djibouti
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Eritrea
Estonia
Eswatini
Ethiopia
Faeroe Islands
Fiji
Finland
France
Gabon
Gambia
Georgia
Germany
Ghana
Greece
Greenland
Guam
Guatemala
Guinea
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kiribati
Kosovo
Kuwait
Kyrgyz Republic
Laos
Latvia
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macao
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia
Mali
Malta
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mexico
Moldova
Monaco
Mongolia
Morocco
Mozambique
Myanmar
Namibia
Nepal
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Palestine
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Puerto Rico
Qatar
Romania
Russia
Rwanda
San Marino
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Serbia
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Slovak Republic
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
Somalia
South Africa
South Korea
South Sudan
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Suriname
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Thailand
Timor-Leste
Togo
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States
United States Virgin Islands
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Venezuela
Vietnam
Yemen
Zambia
Zimbabwe

Roadmap

• Improve speed of fetching restriction dates.
• Introduction of ISO country code to search with.
• More restrictions imposed - school closure, workplace closure, international travel etc.
• Restrictions for vaccinated and non-vaccinated.
• More data formats.

Contributions

Issues and pull requests are always welcome.

Acknowledgements

A huge massive thanks to Oxford University for open sourcing their data that they've been collecting since the pandemic began. Without them this package wouldn't be possible so please go check them out!

Repo - https://github.com/OxCGRT/covid-policy-tracker
COVID-19 Government Response Tracker - www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/covidtracker