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Since there are too many overlapping curves we break the charts up by country and then by hosts within country. The spreadsheet can be found here, each country has its own tab.
Burundi
PingER monitors two hosts in Burundi. They are a government host www.assemblee.bi and the University of Burundi (www.ub.edu.bi). Neither appears to have marked changes around March-April. Also there is little information on interventions etc. in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Burundi. According to https://www.imf.org/en/Topics/imf-and-covid19/Policy-Responses-to-COVID-19 "Measures taken to minimize the risk of the pandemic breaking out in Burundi have been very limited: The population has been instructed to follow some basic rules of limited social distancing and frequent handwashing. Hand sanitizers and water for handwashing have been installed in public places."
Eritrea
Unfortunately, there was no monitoring at what was preov=baly probably the critical period.
Ethiopia
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According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Ethiopia#March_2020 the first Covid-9 case in Ethiopia was on Mar 13. "On 16 March 2020, the office of the Prime Minister announced that schools, sporting events, and public gatherings shall be suspended for 15 days. On 8 April 2020, the Council of Ministers declared a five-month long state of emergency in response to the growing number of coronavirus cases. The state of emergency was approved on 10 April by the parliament" See here for spreadsheet.
Kenya
There are 3 hosts being monitored by PingER in Kenya. Two are government hosts both in the capital Nairobi, and one (www.daystar.ac.ke) is the Daystar University in Kampala. Looking at the chart of IPDV below it appears that IPDV dropped by several 10s of a percent sometime between Mar 21 and Mar 28. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Kenya we see: On 15 March 2020, President Uhuru Kenyatta directed that the following measures to curb COVID-19 be implemented:
- "All schools and higher learning institutions be closed by Friday March 20, 2020.
- "Government and businesses people start working from home; except essential services.
- "No congressional meetings – weddings, malls, night clubs, churches, limitation of visits to hospitals.
- The Health Minister Mutahi Kagwe banned all social gatherings including religious gatherings on the same date.
- All bars were to remain closed from 22 March, with restaurants allowed to remain open for takeaway services only.
Kenya details by host
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According to https://www.mining.com/sumitomo-halts-mines-in-bolivia-madagascar/ there was a curfew starting Thurs Mar 20 and 2 cities went into strict lockdown on the same date. Both hosts monitored in Madagascar are in the capital city of Antananarivo which has a population of 1.6 million or about 6.1% of the population of Madagascar. Within the two weeks before and after Mar 20 there does not appear to be a consistent change in the reduction in the variability of the PingER IPDV measurements.
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PingER monitors three hosts in Malawi. They are the Parliament of Malawi (www.parliament.gov.mw), the Kamuza College of Nursing at theQueen the Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, in Blantyre (www.kcn.unima.mw) and the University of Malawi - Malawi Polytechnic (www.poly.ac.mw) in Blantyre.
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- both public and private education institutions were closed from 23 March
- On 14 April, President Mutharika announced a 21-day lockdown starting Saturday 18 April at midnight.[17] However, on 17 April, the Malawi High Court temporarily barred the government from implementing the 21-day lockdown following a petition by the Human Rights Defenders Coalition
It is hard to discover any impact on the PingER IPDV performance from these measures.
There is a sustained increase for a few days in IPDV seen by the University of Malawi on Mar 23, however a similar rise was seen the week before. Similar rises were also seen by www.parliamen.gov.mw. There also appears to be reduction in the overall magnitude and also the variability of IPDV for all hosts or 2 weeks after Apr 19.
Mauritius
PingER makes measurements to one host in Mauritius. It is www.utm.ac.mu at the University of Technology Mauritius in the capital Port Louis. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Mauritius, on Mar 18 the government announced that all schools and Universities were shutdown. On Mar 19 quarantine regulation s were published and on Mar 22 a curfew order was ordered effective Mar 23. There appears to be an increase in the weeks before and after these interventions.
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