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.
Bolivia
PingER monitors 3 Universities in Bolivia.
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Bolivia on March 17, the minister of the presidency, Yerko Núñez, declared a public health emergency and arranged a series of quarantine measures including social sporting, religious, and other activities and gatherings are prohibited. A nationwide quarantine was in effect from 22 March at midnight (00:00). The spreadsheet is here.
Chile
PingER monitors three hosts in Chile: www.canal2temuco.cl is a TV channel located near to La Serena about 300 miles North of the capital Santiago, www.alma.cl is the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) headquarters in Santiago, and the University of Chile ( www.dcc.uchile.cl) in Santiago. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Chile on Mar 20 quarantine was imposed on 2 sectors of Santiago, Mar 265 lockdown of greater Santiago, Mar 28 complete lockdown of. Temuco, on 16 May 2020, the whole city of Santiago was put under mandatory quarantine due to an increase of cases.
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 12 March, the government announced seven measures to slow the spread of the disease, including the suspension of educational activities in schools and universities. 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. Three does not appear to be any correlation with these interventions. The spreadsheet is here.
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.
Venezuela
PingER monitors 7 hosts in Venezuela. These are: the Banco National Credito (www.bnc.com.ve) in Caracas; www.inter.com.ve a commercial site in Maracan; www.inces.gob.ve a government site in Tucupita; the Banco Central de Venezuela (www.bcv.org.ve) in Caracas; the Asociacion Nacional de Cultivadores Agricolas (www.anca.org.ve) in Araure, the Ministerio del poder popular para Educacion universiteria ciencia i tecnologia in Acarigua (www.iutep.tec.ve); and the Simon Bolivar University in Caracas (www.usb.ve) in Caracas.
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Venezuela stay at home orders were announced on 15 March and introduced the next day across six states and the Caracas area. All classes would be suspended at public and private schools from Monday 16 March. March 16 Madiro extended the quarantine to the entire country and went into lockdown on 17 March. The first confirmed death from the disease was announced on 26 March.
Comparing the interventions with the PingER IPDV measurements below we see:
- starting Mar 18 a decrease in the midweek IPDV of a factor of 2-3 for www.iutep.tec.ve following the Mar 140-15 interventions
- no impact on the government host www.inces.gob.ve
- a big decrease in the IPDV for www.anca.org.ve in the 2 weeks following the Mar 14-15 interventions
- there is a big increase in the IPDV for www.anca.org.ve starting Mar 30 and lasting until Apr 22, that is NOT correlated with the interventions above.
- www.bnc.com.ve and www.inces.gob.ve track one another fairly closely. Starting Mar 14 the differences in the Monday-Friday IPDVs compared to the weekend IPDVs are much reduced, possibly due to interventions making the behaviors more uniform.
