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  • Epidemiology
  • Infectious Disease Control

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  • Social distancing was a key strategy for managing the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • Evaluating the effectiveness of these measures is crucial for public health policy.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To assess the impact of social distancing on reducing daily new cases and deaths from COVID-19.
  • To quantify the changes in COVID-19 incidence and mortality rates before and after intervention.

Main Methods:

  • Cross-sectional study analyzing daily COVID-19 case and death data from February 15 to April 19, 2020.
  • Interrupted time series (ITS) analysis was employed using STATA software.
  • Evaluated changes in the level and trend of daily new cases and deaths pre- and post-social distancing implementation.

Main Results:

  • A significant decrease in the trend of daily new cases (-102 per day) and deaths (-7 per day) was observed post-intervention (p < 0.001).
  • The post-intervention period showed a reduction of 58 new cases per day and 2 new deaths per day (p < 0.001).

Conclusions:

  • Social distancing plans were directly effective in reducing new daily cases of COVID-19.
  • The implementation of social distancing measures led to a significant decrease in daily COVID-19 deaths.