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. 2020 Aug 10;8(10):e1273–e1281. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(20)30345-4

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Number of weekly institutional births for the first 22 weeks of 2019 and of 2020 in Nepal, indicative of implementation of national lockdown in 2020

Datapoints are mean weekly number of births, smoothed line is the locally weighted scatterplot smoothing curve with shaded grey area showing the 95% CI. The vertical dashed line indicates week 12·5 when lockdown was announced in 2020. The horizontal red dashed line is the mean weekly number of births before week 12·5 and the blue dashed line is the mean weekly number of births during the remaining 9·5 weeks.