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The Oxford Covid-19 Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT) collected information on which pandemic response measures were enacted by governments, and when. During the pandemic this helped decision-makers and citizens understand governmental responses in a consistent way, aiding efforts to fight the pandemic. Now that covid-19 is no longer designated a public health emergency of international concern, the data can be used for research purposes and to prepare for future pandemics.
The OxCGRT systematically collected information on several different common policy responses governments took over 2020, 2021, and 2022, recorded these policies on a scale to reflect the extent of government action, and aggregates these scores into a suite of policy indices. We also collected differentiated policies data where different policies apply to people who were vaccinated and non-vaccinated.
The OxCGRT reports publicly available information on 24 policy indicators and a miscellaneous notes field of government response organised into four groups:
C: containment and closure policies
E: economic policies
H: health system policies
V: vaccination policies
To help make sense of the data, we have produced four indices that aggregate the data into a single number. For more details about how the indices are comprised, see the section 'Calculation of policy indices' in our documentation. Each of these indices reports a number between 0 to 100 that reflects the level of the government's response along certain dimensions:
overall government response index (all indicators)
containment and health index (all C and H indicators)
stringency index (all C indicators, plus H1 which records public information campaigns)
economic support index (all E indicators)
These indices are a measure of how many of the relevant policy types a government has acted upon, and to what degree. The index cannot say whether a government's policy has been implemented effectively.
Because of the complexity of the dataset, it is published across 27 CSV files. Our technical documentation (
https://github.com/OxCGRT/covid-policy-dataset/blob/main/documentation_and_codebook.md
) contains all the information users need to navigate and use the data.
Retrieved on
August 1, 2024
Retrieved from
Citation
This is the citation of the original data obtained from the source, prior to any processing or adaptation by Our World in Data. To cite data downloaded from this page, please use the suggested citation given in
Reuse This Work
below.
Thomas Hale, Noam Angrist, Rafael Goldszmidt, Beatriz Kira, Anna Petherick, Toby Phillips, Samuel Webster, Emily Cameron-Blake, Laura Hallas, Saptarshi Majumdar, and Helen Tatlow. (2021). “A global panel database of pandemic policies (Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker).” Nature Human Behaviour.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01079-8
The Oxford Covid-19 Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT) collected information on which pandemic response measures were enacted by governments, and when. During the pandemic this helped decision-makers and citizens understand governmental responses in a consistent way, aiding efforts to fight the pandemic. Now that covid-19 is no longer designated a public health emergency of international concern, the data can be used for research purposes and to prepare for future pandemics.
The OxCGRT systematically collected information on several different common policy responses governments took over 2020, 2021, and 2022, recorded these policies on a scale to reflect the extent of government action, and aggregates these scores into a suite of policy indices. We also collected differentiated policies data where different policies apply to people who were vaccinated and non-vaccinated.
The OxCGRT reports publicly available information on 24 policy indicators and a miscellaneous notes field of government response organised into four groups:
C: containment and closure policies
E: economic policies
H: health system policies
V: vaccination policies
To help make sense of the data, we have produced four indices that aggregate the data into a single number. For more details about how the indices are comprised, see the section 'Calculation of policy indices' in our documentation. Each of these indices reports a number between 0 to 100 that reflects the level of the government's response along certain dimensions:
overall government response index (all indicators)
containment and health index (all C and H indicators)
stringency index (all C indicators, plus H1 which records public information campaigns)
economic support index (all E indicators)
These indices are a measure of how many of the relevant policy types a government has acted upon, and to what degree. The index cannot say whether a government's policy has been implemented effectively.
Because of the complexity of the dataset, it is published across 27 CSV files. Our technical documentation (
https://github.com/OxCGRT/covid-policy-dataset/blob/main/documentation_and_codebook.md
) contains all the information users need to navigate and use the data.
Retrieved on
August 1, 2024
Retrieved from
Citation
This is the citation of the original data obtained from the source, prior to any processing or adaptation by Our World in Data. To cite data downloaded from this page, please use the suggested citation given in
Reuse This Work
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Thomas Hale, Noam Angrist, Rafael Goldszmidt, Beatriz Kira, Anna Petherick, Toby Phillips, Samuel Webster, Emily Cameron-Blake, Laura Hallas, Saptarshi Majumdar, and Helen Tatlow. (2021). “A global panel database of pandemic policies (Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker).” Nature Human Behaviour.
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# International travel controls during the COVID-19 pandemic
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# International travel controls during the COVID-19 pandemic, Dec 31, 2022
Record restrictions on international travel. Note: this records policy for foreign travellers, not citizens.
Table
Map
No data
No measures
Screening
Quarantine from high-risk regions
Ban on high-risk regions
Total border closure
Jan 1, 2020
Dec 31, 2022
**Data source:** Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford (2023) – [Learn more about this data]()
[OurWorldinData.org/coronavirus](https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus) \| [CC BY](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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4
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1
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1
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1
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1
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1
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1
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1
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1
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1
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1
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1
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1
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1
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1
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1
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1
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1
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1
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1
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1
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1
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1
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1
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1
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
- Eswatini
0
- Finland
0
- France
0
- Gabon
0
- Gambia
0
- Georgia
0
- Germany
0
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0
- Greenland
0
- Guatemala
0
- Guyana
0
- Hungary
0
- Iceland
0
- India
0
- Ireland
0
- Israel
0
- Jamaica
0
- Jordan
0
- Kazakhstan
0
- Kiribati
0
- Kosovo
0
- Kuwait
0
- Kyrgyzstan
0
- Latvia
0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
- Mauritius
0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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## What you should know about this indicator
Possible categories:
- 0: no restrictions
- 1: screening arrivals
- 2: quarantine arrivals from some or all regions
- 3: ban arrivals from some regions
- 4: ban on all regions or total border closure
International travel controls during the COVID-19 pandemic
Record restrictions on international travel. Note: this records policy for foreign travellers, not citizens.
Source
Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford (2023) – [with minor processing](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/international-travel-covid#sources-and-processing) by Our World in Data
Last updated
August 1, 2024
## More Data on COVID-19
- [Estimated cumulative excess deaths during COVID-19 For countries that have not reported all-cause mortality data for a given week, an estimate is shown, with uncertainty interval. If reported data is available, that value only is shown. For comparison, cumulative confirmed COVID-19 deaths are shown.](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-deaths-cumulative-economist-single-entity)
[Download options](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-deaths-cumulative-economist-single-entity?overlay=download-data)
- [Weekly confirmed COVID-19 cases Weekly confirmed cases refer to the cumulative number of cases over the previous week.](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/weekly-covid-cases)
[Download options](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/weekly-covid-cases?overlay=download-data)
- [COVID-19: Countries with restrictions on international travels Number of recorded countries with a given type of restriction on international travel arrivals.](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/countries-with-restrictions-on-international-travels)
[Download options](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/countries-with-restrictions-on-international-travels?overlay=download-data)
- [Positive test rate The daily number of confirmed cases divided by the daily number of tests, expressed as a percentage. Tests may refer to the number of tests performed or the number of people tested - depending on which is reported by the particular country.](https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/covid?Metric=Share+of+positive+tests&Interval=7-day+rolling+average&Relative+to+population=false)
[Download options](https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/covid?Metric=Share+of+positive+tests&Interval=7-day+rolling+average&Relative+to+population=false&overlay=download-data)
- [Share of people with a complete initial protocol Total number of people who received all doses prescribed by the initial vaccination protocol per 100 people in the total population.](https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/covid?Metric=People+fully+vaccinated&Interval=Cumulative&Relative+to+population=true)
- [Annual research & development funding for infectious diseases Global annual funding reported for research and development to address neglected tropical diseases (in blue). These are compared to HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and COVID-19 (in orange). This data is expressed in US dollars, adjusted for inflation.](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-research-development-funding-for-neglected-tropical-diseases)
- [Estimated cumulative excess deaths during COVID-19 For countries that have not reported all-cause mortality data for a given week, an estimate is shown, with uncertainty interval. If reported data is available, that value only is shown.](https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/covid?Metric=Excess+mortality+%28estimates%29&Interval=Cumulative&Relative+to+population=false)
- [Estimated cumulative excess deaths per 100,000 people during COVID, from The Economist For countries that have not reported all-cause mortality data for a given week, an estimate is shown, with uncertainty interval. If reported data is available, that value only is shown. On the map, only the central estimate is shown.](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-deaths-cumulative-per-100k-economist)
- [Number of COVID-19 patients in intensive care (ICU)](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/current-covid-patients-icu)
[See all 228 charts on this topic](https://ourworldindata.org/search?topics=COVID-19)
## Sources and processing
### This data is based on the following sources
#### Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford – Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT)
The Oxford Covid-19 Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT) collected information on which pandemic response measures were enacted by governments, and when. During the pandemic this helped decision-makers and citizens understand governmental responses in a consistent way, aiding efforts to fight the pandemic. Now that covid-19 is no longer designated a public health emergency of international concern, the data can be used for research purposes and to prepare for future pandemics.
The OxCGRT systematically collected information on several different common policy responses governments took over 2020, 2021, and 2022, recorded these policies on a scale to reflect the extent of government action, and aggregates these scores into a suite of policy indices. We also collected differentiated policies data where different policies apply to people who were vaccinated and non-vaccinated.
The OxCGRT reports publicly available information on 24 policy indicators and a miscellaneous notes field of government response organised into four groups:
- C: containment and closure policies
- E: economic policies
- H: health system policies
- V: vaccination policies
To help make sense of the data, we have produced four indices that aggregate the data into a single number. For more details about how the indices are comprised, see the section 'Calculation of policy indices' in our documentation. Each of these indices reports a number between 0 to 100 that reflects the level of the government's response along certain dimensions:
- overall government response index (all indicators)
- containment and health index (all C and H indicators)
- stringency index (all C indicators, plus H1 which records public information campaigns)
- economic support index (all E indicators)
These indices are a measure of how many of the relevant policy types a government has acted upon, and to what degree. The index cannot say whether a government's policy has been implemented effectively.
Because of the complexity of the dataset, it is published across 27 CSV files. Our technical documentation (<https://github.com/OxCGRT/covid-policy-dataset/blob/main/documentation_and_codebook.md>) contains all the information users need to navigate and use the data.
Retrieved on
August 1, 2024
Retrieved from
<https://github.com/OxCGRT/covid-policy-dataset>
Citation
This is the citation of the original data obtained from the source, prior to any processing or adaptation by Our World in Data. To cite data downloaded from this page, please use the suggested citation given in [Reuse This Work](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/international-travel-covid#reuse-this-work) below.
```
Thomas Hale, Noam Angrist, Rafael Goldszmidt, Beatriz Kira, Anna Petherick, Toby Phillips, Samuel Webster, Emily Cameron-Blake, Laura Hallas, Saptarshi Majumdar, and Helen Tatlow. (2021). “A global panel database of pandemic policies (Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker).” Nature Human Behaviour. <https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01079-8>
```
The Oxford Covid-19 Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT) collected information on which pandemic response measures were enacted by governments, and when. During the pandemic this helped decision-makers and citizens understand governmental responses in a consistent way, aiding efforts to fight the pandemic. Now that covid-19 is no longer designated a public health emergency of international concern, the data can be used for research purposes and to prepare for future pandemics.
The OxCGRT systematically collected information on several different common policy responses governments took over 2020, 2021, and 2022, recorded these policies on a scale to reflect the extent of government action, and aggregates these scores into a suite of policy indices. We also collected differentiated policies data where different policies apply to people who were vaccinated and non-vaccinated.
The OxCGRT reports publicly available information on 24 policy indicators and a miscellaneous notes field of government response organised into four groups:
- C: containment and closure policies
- E: economic policies
- H: health system policies
- V: vaccination policies
To help make sense of the data, we have produced four indices that aggregate the data into a single number. For more details about how the indices are comprised, see the section 'Calculation of policy indices' in our documentation. Each of these indices reports a number between 0 to 100 that reflects the level of the government's response along certain dimensions:
- overall government response index (all indicators)
- containment and health index (all C and H indicators)
- stringency index (all C indicators, plus H1 which records public information campaigns)
- economic support index (all E indicators)
These indices are a measure of how many of the relevant policy types a government has acted upon, and to what degree. The index cannot say whether a government's policy has been implemented effectively.
Because of the complexity of the dataset, it is published across 27 CSV files. Our technical documentation (<https://github.com/OxCGRT/covid-policy-dataset/blob/main/documentation_and_codebook.md>) contains all the information users need to navigate and use the data.
Retrieved on
August 1, 2024
Retrieved from
<https://github.com/OxCGRT/covid-policy-dataset>
Citation
This is the citation of the original data obtained from the source, prior to any processing or adaptation by Our World in Data. To cite data downloaded from this page, please use the suggested citation given in [Reuse This Work](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/international-travel-covid#reuse-this-work) below.
```
Thomas Hale, Noam Angrist, Rafael Goldszmidt, Beatriz Kira, Anna Petherick, Toby Phillips, Samuel Webster, Emily Cameron-Blake, Laura Hallas, Saptarshi Majumdar, and Helen Tatlow. (2021). “A global panel database of pandemic policies (Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker).” Nature Human Behaviour. <https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01079-8>
```
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Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford (2023) – with minor processing by Our World in Data. “International travel controls during the COVID-19 pandemic” [dataset]. Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, “Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT)” [original data]. Retrieved April 10, 2026 from <https://archive.ourworldindata.org/20260304-094028/grapher/international-travel-covid.html> (archived on March 4, 2026).
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| Readable Markdown | Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford – Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT)
The Oxford Covid-19 Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT) collected information on which pandemic response measures were enacted by governments, and when. During the pandemic this helped decision-makers and citizens understand governmental responses in a consistent way, aiding efforts to fight the pandemic. Now that covid-19 is no longer designated a public health emergency of international concern, the data can be used for research purposes and to prepare for future pandemics.
The OxCGRT systematically collected information on several different common policy responses governments took over 2020, 2021, and 2022, recorded these policies on a scale to reflect the extent of government action, and aggregates these scores into a suite of policy indices. We also collected differentiated policies data where different policies apply to people who were vaccinated and non-vaccinated.
The OxCGRT reports publicly available information on 24 policy indicators and a miscellaneous notes field of government response organised into four groups:
- C: containment and closure policies
- E: economic policies
- H: health system policies
- V: vaccination policies
To help make sense of the data, we have produced four indices that aggregate the data into a single number. For more details about how the indices are comprised, see the section 'Calculation of policy indices' in our documentation. Each of these indices reports a number between 0 to 100 that reflects the level of the government's response along certain dimensions:
- overall government response index (all indicators)
- containment and health index (all C and H indicators)
- stringency index (all C indicators, plus H1 which records public information campaigns)
- economic support index (all E indicators)
These indices are a measure of how many of the relevant policy types a government has acted upon, and to what degree. The index cannot say whether a government's policy has been implemented effectively.
Because of the complexity of the dataset, it is published across 27 CSV files. Our technical documentation (<https://github.com/OxCGRT/covid-policy-dataset/blob/main/documentation_and_codebook.md>) contains all the information users need to navigate and use the data.
Retrieved on
August 1, 2024
Retrieved from
Citation
This is the citation of the original data obtained from the source, prior to any processing or adaptation by Our World in Data. To cite data downloaded from this page, please use the suggested citation given in [Reuse This Work](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/international-travel-covid#reuse-this-work) below.
```
Thomas Hale, Noam Angrist, Rafael Goldszmidt, Beatriz Kira, Anna Petherick, Toby Phillips, Samuel Webster, Emily Cameron-Blake, Laura Hallas, Saptarshi Majumdar, and Helen Tatlow. (2021). “A global panel database of pandemic policies (Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker).” Nature Human Behaviour. <https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01079-8>
```
The Oxford Covid-19 Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT) collected information on which pandemic response measures were enacted by governments, and when. During the pandemic this helped decision-makers and citizens understand governmental responses in a consistent way, aiding efforts to fight the pandemic. Now that covid-19 is no longer designated a public health emergency of international concern, the data can be used for research purposes and to prepare for future pandemics.
The OxCGRT systematically collected information on several different common policy responses governments took over 2020, 2021, and 2022, recorded these policies on a scale to reflect the extent of government action, and aggregates these scores into a suite of policy indices. We also collected differentiated policies data where different policies apply to people who were vaccinated and non-vaccinated.
The OxCGRT reports publicly available information on 24 policy indicators and a miscellaneous notes field of government response organised into four groups:
- C: containment and closure policies
- E: economic policies
- H: health system policies
- V: vaccination policies
To help make sense of the data, we have produced four indices that aggregate the data into a single number. For more details about how the indices are comprised, see the section 'Calculation of policy indices' in our documentation. Each of these indices reports a number between 0 to 100 that reflects the level of the government's response along certain dimensions:
- overall government response index (all indicators)
- containment and health index (all C and H indicators)
- stringency index (all C indicators, plus H1 which records public information campaigns)
- economic support index (all E indicators)
These indices are a measure of how many of the relevant policy types a government has acted upon, and to what degree. The index cannot say whether a government's policy has been implemented effectively.
Because of the complexity of the dataset, it is published across 27 CSV files. Our technical documentation (<https://github.com/OxCGRT/covid-policy-dataset/blob/main/documentation_and_codebook.md>) contains all the information users need to navigate and use the data.
Retrieved on
August 1, 2024
Retrieved from
Citation
This is the citation of the original data obtained from the source, prior to any processing or adaptation by Our World in Data. To cite data downloaded from this page, please use the suggested citation given in [Reuse This Work](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/international-travel-covid#reuse-this-work) below.
```
Thomas Hale, Noam Angrist, Rafael Goldszmidt, Beatriz Kira, Anna Petherick, Toby Phillips, Samuel Webster, Emily Cameron-Blake, Laura Hallas, Saptarshi Majumdar, and Helen Tatlow. (2021). “A global panel database of pandemic policies (Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker).” Nature Human Behaviour. <https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01079-8>
``` |
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