Schooling During a Pandemic

Annex B.  Lockdown measures in selected countries: February-June 2020

Table A B.1. Lockdown measures: February-June 2020 – Selected countries

Country	Domain concerned	Dates	Description
Australia	Schools	24/3-early May	Schools closed. Partial resumption of in-person schooling from early May (depending on State/Territory)
	Employment	22/3-15/5	non-essential services closed (or work from home) for some sectors or categories of workers
		26/5- 30/6	non-essential businesses and services open, working from home recommended
	Stay at home	21/3-1/4	recommend not leaving house
		2/4-14/5	required not to leave house with exceptions for daily exercise, grocery shopping, and “essential” trips
		29/5-30/6	No restrictions
Canada	Schools	23/3-30/6	All schools closed
	Employment	14/3-30/6	Working from home recommended
	Stay at home	18/3-21/6	3 required not to leave house with minimal exceptions for daily exercise, grocery shopping, and “essential” trips
		22/6-30/6	2 required not to leave house with exceptions for daily exercise, grocery shopping, and “essential” trips
Flanders	Schools	16/3-11/5	All schools closed
	Employment	14/3-17/3	require closing (or work from home) for some sectors or categories of workers
		18/3-10/5	Non-essential workplaces closed (or work from home) all-but-essential workplaces (e.g. grocery stores, doctors)
		11/5-30/6	require closing (or work from home) for some sectors or categories of workers
	Stay at home	18/3-7/6	require not leaving house with exceptions for daily exercise, grocery shopping, and “essential” trips
		8/6-30/6	No restrictions
France	Schools	16/3-11/5	Primary schools closed
		16/3-19/5	Lower secondary schools closed
		16/3-25/5	Upper secondary schools closed
	Employment	17/3-10/5	Non-essential workplaces (e.g. grocery stores, doctors) closed (or work from home)
		11/5-21/6	non-essential services require closing (or work from home) for some sectors or categories of workers
		22/6-30/6	non-essential businesses and services reopen recommended working from home
	Stay at home	17/3-10/5	require not leaving house with exceptions for daily exercise, grocery shopping, and “essential” trips
		11/5-21/6	recommend not leaving house
		22/6-30/6	No restrictions
Germany	Schools	16/3-04/05	All schools closed
	Employment	22//3-30/6	non-essential services require closing (or work from home) for some sectors or categories of workers
	Stay at home	9/3-20/3	recommend not leaving house
		21/3-5/5	require not leaving house with exceptions for daily exercise, grocery shopping, and “essential” trips
		6/5-30/6	No restrictions
Ireland	Schools	13/3-29/6	Primary schools closed
		13/3-31/5	Secondary schools closed
	Employment	12/3-26/3	Working from home recommended
		27/3-17/5	require closing (or work from home) all-but-essential workplaces (e.g. grocery stores, doctors)
		18/5-25/6	non-essential services require closing (or work from home) for some sectors or categories of workers
		26/6-30/6	Working from home recommended
	Stay at home	26/3-27/3	recommend not leaving house
		28/3-17/5	require not leaving house with exceptions for daily exercise, grocery shopping, and “essential” trips
		18/5-25/6	Recommended not leaving house
		36/6-30/6	No restrictions
The Netherlands	Schools	16/3-11/5	Primary schools closed
		16/3-2/6	Secondary schools closed
	Employment	12/3-14/3	Working from home recommended
		15/3-10/5	require closing (or work from home) all-but-essential workplaces (e.g. grocery stores, doctors)
		11/5-30/6	require closing (or work from home) for some sectors or categories of workers
	Stay at home	6/3-22/3	Recommended not to leave house
		23/3-10/5	Requirement not to leave house with exceptions for daily exercise, grocery shopping, and “essential” trips
		11/5-30/6	recommend not leaving house
Switzerland	Schools	11/3-6/5	Primary and lower secondary schools closed
		11/3-8/6	Upper secondary schools closed
	Employment	17/3-26/4	require closing (or work from home) all-but-essential workplaces (e.g. grocery stores, doctors)
		27/4-5/6	non-essential services require closing (or work from home) for some sectors or categories of workers
		6/6-30/6	Working from home recommended
	Stay at home	17/3-22/6	recommend not leaving house
		23/6-30/6	No restrictions
United Kingdom	Schools	23/3-1/6	Primary schools closed
		23/3-15/6	Secondary schools closed
	Employment	12/3-26/3	Working from home recommended
		27/3-17/5	require closing (or work from home) all-but-essential workplaces (e.g. grocery stores, doctors)
		18/5-25/6	non-essential services require closing (or work from home) for some sectors or categories of workers
		26/6-30/6	Working from home recommended
	Stay at home	13/3-21/3	recommend not leaving house
		22/3-12/5	require not leaving house with exceptions for daily exercise, grocery shopping, and “essential” trips
		13/5-30/6	recommend not leaving house
United States	Schools	24/3-	All public schools closed until end of 2020 school year
	Employment	19/3-14/6	require closing (or work from home) all-but-essential workplaces (e.g. grocery stores, doctors)
		15/6-30/6	non-essential services require closing (or work from home) for some sectors or categories of workers
	Stay at home	15/3-30/6	require not leaving house with exceptions for daily exercise, grocery shopping, and “essential” trips

Sources: (Hale et al., 2021[1]; OECD, 2021[2]); (Bacher-Hicks, Goodman and Mulhern, 2021_[3], Table A3).

References

[3] Bacher-Hicks, A., J. Goodman and C. Mulhern (2021), “Inequality in household adaptation to schooling shocks: Covid-induced online learning engagement in real time”, Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 193, p. 104345, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2020.104345.

[1] Hale, T., N. Angrist, R. Goldszmidt, B. Kira, A. Petherick, T. Phillips, S. Webster, E. Cameron-Blake, L. Hallas, S. Majumdar and H. Tatlow (2021), “A global panel database of pandemic policies (Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker)”, Nature Human Behaviour, Vol. 5/4, pp. 529-538, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01079-8.

[2] OECD (2021), The State of School Education: One Year into the COVID Pandemic, https://doi.org/10.1787/201dde84-en.