| Ex. FOR-023 | Notice No. 1 (Jan. 23, 2020): suspension of public transport and outbound travel from Wuhan; Hubei provincial lockdown; State Council extension of the Spring Festival holiday (Jan. 26-27, 2020) and staggered work resumption (Feb. 2020)Wuhan lockdown notice | Wuhan Municipal Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia Prevention and Control Headquarters (reported by Xinhua) | China - Hubei Province / WuhanForeign government | Jan. 23, 2020 | 2020 Q2 | Context (guidance or announcement)Business closureTravel and quarantineSupply chain | Confirmed from a secondary source | |
| Ex. FOR-031 | Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases (Declaration of Infected Local Areas) Order 2020 [P.U.(A) 87/2020, Mar. 17, 2020] and Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases (Measures within the Infected Local Areas) Regulations 2020 [P.U.(A) 91/2020, Mar. 18, 2020] - the Movement Control Order (MCO), as reproduced in Malaysian Bar Circular No. 066/2020Movement Control Order regulations | Minister of Health under the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases Act 1988 (Act 342); National Security Council (Movement Control Order) | MalaysiaForeign government | Mar. 18, 2020 | 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q4 | Context (guidance or announcement)Stay-at-homeBusiness closureTravel and quarantineSupply chain | Confirmed from a secondary source | |
| Ex. FOR-033 | Directive 16/CT-TTg (Mar. 31, 2020): nationwide social distancing Apr. 1-15, 2020; Ho Chi Minh City under Directive 16 from July 9, 2021; sixteen southern localities under Directive 16 from July 18-19, 2021; factories required to house workers on site ('three on-site') from July 2021; restrictions eased Oct. 1, 2021Vietnam Briefing tracker: Vietnam business operations and the coronavirus | Prime Minister of Vietnam (Directive 16/CT-TTg, Mar. 31, 2020); Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee and southern provincial People's Committees (July-Sept. 2021), as tracked by Vietnam Briefing (Dezan Shira & Associates) | VietnamForeign government | Mar. 31, 2020 | 2020 Q22021 Q3 | Context (guidance or announcement)Stay-at-homeBusiness closureTravel and quarantineWorkplace rulesSupply chain | Confirmed from a secondary source | |
| Ex. FOR-027 | Third Declaration of a State of Emergency (Apr. 23, 2021; Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Hyogo, later expanded) and Fourth Declaration (announced July 8, 2021; Tokyo from July 12, 2021; Okinawa continued; expanded in August to Osaka, Saitama, Chiba, Kanagawa and other prefectures), extended to Sept. 30, 2021; quasi-emergency measures in additional prefecturesThird and fourth states of emergency (2021) | Government of Japan under art. 32(1) of the Act on Special Measures | JapanForeign government | Apr. 23, 2021 | 2021 Q22021 Q3 | Context (guidance or announcement)Emergency declarationBusiness closureGathering capCurfew and hoursAlcohol and bars | Confirmed from a secondary source | |
| Ex. FOR-032 | MCO 2.0 (Jan. 13, 2021, selected states); nationwide MCO 3.0 from May 12, 2021; nationwide 'total lockdown' (Phase 1 of the National Recovery Plan) from June 1, 2021, with essential manufacturing limited to a 60 percent workforce and other sectors closed; NRP phases through the third quarter of 2021MCO 2.0, MCO 3.0 and the June 1, 2021 total lockdown | Prime Minister's Office and National Security Council; Ministry of International Trade and Industry (manufacturing approvals) | MalaysiaForeign government | May 28, 2021 | 2021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3 | Context (guidance or announcement)Stay-at-homeBusiness closureCapacity limitSupply chain | Confirmed from a secondary source | |