Table 1.
Spearman's correlations between 7-day MA of new cases (new deaths) and policy indices for Hong Kong
| Index | COVID-19 new | Whole period 28 January 2020–26 March 2022 |
First wave 28 January 2020–3 March 2020 |
Second wave 4 March 2020–21 June 2020 |
Third wave 22 June 2020–19 November 2020 |
Fourth wave 20 November 2020–6 April 2021 |
Fifth wave 31 December 2021–26 March 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI | Case | −0.2278*** | 0.1363 | −0.4827*** | −0.3007*** | −0.4446*** | −0.3166** |
| Death | 0.0445 | −0.1934 | −0.0755 | 0.0277 | −0.0738 | 0.2272* | |
| GRI | Case | −0.1415*** | 0.0315 | −0.5147*** | −0.4264*** | −0.1504 | −0.2600* |
| Death | 0.0760* | −0.1394 | −0.0748 | −0.0162 | −0.0406 | 0.2327* | |
| CHI | Case | −0.1115** | 0.1069 | −0.5147*** | −0.4280*** | −0.1504 | −0.2600* |
| Death | 0.0764* | −0.0811 | −0.0748 | −0.0293 | −0.0406 | 0.2327* |
*, **, and *** denote significance at the 5%, 1%, and 0.1% levels, respectively.