Table 2. Government responses to the pandemic.

		Wave 1							Wave 2
		Lockdown 1			Re-Opening 1				Lockdown 2			Index
	# of Waves	ΔSI	new SI	IR	ΔSI	new SI	IR	Mean IR (Wave 1)	ΔSI	new SI	IR	Mean IR (Total)
		(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)	(7)	(8)	(9)	(10)	(11)
Mean		41.90	65.46	7.36	-15.08	53.02	19.79	13.58	16.65	64.59	190.30	68.21
Median	2.00	42.59	67.75	2.42	-12.50	51.39	5.65	8.14	15.51	66.66	134.57	54.19
SD		10.21	16.08	11.82	9.44	15.20	37.66	18.57	9.83	12.63	206.44	67.27
Max	3.00	63.89	91.36	67.42	-1.85	81.94	157.63	78.92	46.76	82.41	810.15	272.00
Min	1.00	16.66	19.44	0.01	-43.52	26.85	0.02	0.09	3.70	34.26	0.00	0.07

Note: ΔSI shows the maximum change (absolute difference) in the stringency index (3-day moving average) within one week and new SI the stringency level reached after the maximum hike / reduction of NPIs. IR (incidence rate) informs about the number of officially reported infections per 100,000 inhabitants over the 7-day period prior to the maximum change in SI. Mean IR (Wave 1) is the mean value of IR in Lockdown 1 and Re-Opening 1. Mean IR (Total) also includes values of IR for Lockdown 2. The lower the IR value the earlier (later) a government enacted maximum changes in the stringency index when facing a rise (decline) in the 7-day incidence. Reading example: For Lockdown 1, the average largest jump (41.9) happened at the time when the incidence rate over the last 7-days was 7.36 per 100,000 inhabitants. Source: authors’ calculations. Numbers based on the country sample of 44 countries. For further details see S1 Table in S1 File.