In this case we tried smoothing the data with a running average over the last week (7 days bearing in mind that since we only recorded weekdays only 5 days were joined in the running average). This also means that the days shown at the bottom are in some sense 7 days ahead of the data.
Colombia
PingER monitors two hosts in Columbia: www.eafit.co in Medellin and cdcnet.uniandes.edu.co in the capital Bogoto. Looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Colombia on March 15th President Iván Duque, along with the Ministries of Health and Education, announced suspension of classes for all public and private schools and universities in the country. Thre does not appear to be any correlation with this interevention.
Ecuador
PingER monitors two hosts in Ecuador. They are both university hosts. The Unidad Educativa Particular La Salle Conocoto (www.lasalleconocoto.edu.ec) is located about 10 miles South of Quito. The other is the Army Polytechnic School (www.espe.edu.ec) also located on the Southern outskirts of Quito.
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Ecuador on Friday March 13th the government suspended class attendance for students at all levels. The following week there is a sustained fairly dramatic rise in the IPDV for www.lasalleconocoto.edu.ec. Also the background IPDV level for www.espe.edu.ec increases by a factor of two to three at the same time. The spreadsheet can be found here.
Paraguay
PingER monitors 3 hosts in Paraguay: a commercial host salomoni.com.py, a commercial host at www.cultura.gov.py and the Universidad Nacional de Asuncion. All are in the capital Asuncion. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Paraguay, on 10 March 2020, the Paraguayan government suspended classes and all activities that involve groups of people, as well as public and private events. On Mar 15 the government announced a nighttime curfew was announced. On Mar 20 the first death and the first case of community transmission were confirmed and the government declared a total quarantine and public movement is restricted to buying food, medicine and other essential items. In the IPDV chart below there are increases in the daily IPDV for both salomoni.co.py and www.cnc.una.py around 3/16/2020. Again around Mar 20 salomoni.com./py increases and this time persists through the following month. The drop in IPDV for www.cultura.gov.py does not appear to be related to the above interventions. The spreadsheet is here.
Uruguay
PingER monitors 4 hosts in Uruguay. Three are universities, two located in Montevideo (www.fisica.edu.uy and mail.fcien.edu.uy from campuses of the Univesity of the Republic) home to about 1/3 of the country's population, one (www.cure.edu.uy) is located in Villa Sara North Eastern Uruguay, and one is a commercial site located in Loscano in Eastern Uruguay. As expected the tow host at the University of the Republic track on. another fairly closely.
The University of the Republic cancelled classes on Friday Mar 13. The government announced suspending classes at private and public schools on Friday Mar 14. The following Monday & Tuesday there is a sharp rise in the IPDV the three universities.
The spreadsheet of the PingER data is here.
