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Mobility and sales activity during the Corona crisis: daily indicators for Switzerland
This paper documents daily compound indicators on physical mobility and sales activity in Switzerland during the Corona crisis. We report several insights from these indicators: The Swiss population substantially reduced its activities already before the shops closed and before the authorities intro...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7444447/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32864360 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41937-020-00055-9 |
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description | This paper documents daily compound indicators on physical mobility and sales activity in Switzerland during the Corona crisis. We report several insights from these indicators: The Swiss population substantially reduced its activities already before the shops closed and before the authorities introduced containment policies in mid-March 2020. Activity started to gradually recover from the beginning of April onwards, again substantially before the first phase of the shutdown easing started at the end of April. Low physical mobility during the second half of March and during April likely contributed to the quick fall in new COVID-19 infections since mid-March. The sharp drop in economic activity in consumer-related services during March and April and the gradual recovery in these sectors since May correlate strongly with the reduction and subsequent gradual resurgence of mobility. In addition, while activity within Switzerland was back to normal levels by late June, activity of Swiss residents outside of Switzerland was still below normal. |
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spelling | pubmed-74444472020-08-26 Mobility and sales activity during the Corona crisis: daily indicators for Switzerland Eckert, Florian Mikosch, Heiner Swiss J Econ Stat Original Article This paper documents daily compound indicators on physical mobility and sales activity in Switzerland during the Corona crisis. We report several insights from these indicators: The Swiss population substantially reduced its activities already before the shops closed and before the authorities introduced containment policies in mid-March 2020. Activity started to gradually recover from the beginning of April onwards, again substantially before the first phase of the shutdown easing started at the end of April. Low physical mobility during the second half of March and during April likely contributed to the quick fall in new COVID-19 infections since mid-March. The sharp drop in economic activity in consumer-related services during March and April and the gradual recovery in these sectors since May correlate strongly with the reduction and subsequent gradual resurgence of mobility. In addition, while activity within Switzerland was back to normal levels by late June, activity of Swiss residents outside of Switzerland was still below normal. Springer International Publishing 2020-08-24 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7444447/ /pubmed/32864360 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41937-020-00055-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Eckert, Florian Mikosch, Heiner Mobility and sales activity during the Corona crisis: daily indicators for Switzerland |
title | Mobility and sales activity during the Corona crisis: daily indicators for Switzerland |
title_full | Mobility and sales activity during the Corona crisis: daily indicators for Switzerland |
title_fullStr | Mobility and sales activity during the Corona crisis: daily indicators for Switzerland |
title_full_unstemmed | Mobility and sales activity during the Corona crisis: daily indicators for Switzerland |
title_short | Mobility and sales activity during the Corona crisis: daily indicators for Switzerland |
title_sort | mobility and sales activity during the corona crisis: daily indicators for switzerland |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7444447/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32864360 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41937-020-00055-9 |
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