Epidemic versus economic performances of the COVID-19 lockdown: A big data driven analysis.

Haoran Zhang, Peiran Li, Zhiwen Zhang, Wenjing Li, Jinyu Chen, Xuan Song, Ryosuke Shibasaki, Jinyue Yan
Author Information
  1. Haoran Zhang: Center for Spatial Information Science, The University of Tokyo 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, 277-8568 Kashiwa-shi, Chiba, Japan.
  2. Peiran Li: Center for Spatial Information Science, The University of Tokyo 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, 277-8568 Kashiwa-shi, Chiba, Japan.
  3. Zhiwen Zhang: Center for Spatial Information Science, The University of Tokyo 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, 277-8568 Kashiwa-shi, Chiba, Japan.
  4. Wenjing Li: Center for Spatial Information Science, The University of Tokyo 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, 277-8568 Kashiwa-shi, Chiba, Japan.
  5. Jinyu Chen: Center for Spatial Information Science, The University of Tokyo 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, 277-8568 Kashiwa-shi, Chiba, Japan.
  6. Xuan Song: Center for Spatial Information Science, The University of Tokyo 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, 277-8568 Kashiwa-shi, Chiba, Japan.
  7. Ryosuke Shibasaki: Center for Spatial Information Science, The University of Tokyo 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, 277-8568 Kashiwa-shi, Chiba, Japan.
  8. Jinyue Yan: School of Business, Society & Engineering, M��lardalen University, SE-72123 V��ster��s, Sweden.

Abstract

Lockdown measures have been a "panacea" for pandemic control but also a violent "poison" for economies. Lockdown policies strongly restrict human mobility but mobility reduce does harm to economics. Governments meet a thorny problem in balancing the pros and cons of lockdown policies, but lack comprehensive and quantified guides. Based on millions of financial transaction records, and billions of mobility data, we tracked spatio-temporal business networks and human daily mobility, then proposed a high-resolution two-sided framework to assess the epidemiological performance and economic damage of different lockdown policies. We found that the pandemic duration under the strictest lockdown is less about two months than that under the lightest lockdown, which makes the strictest lockdown characterize both epidemiologically and economically efficient. Moreover, based on the two-sided model, we explored the spatial lockdown strategy. We argue that cutting off intercity commuting is significant in both epidemiological and economical aspects, and finally helped governments figure out the Pareto optimal solution set of lockdown strategy.

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