| 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-028 | Order No. 40-3/2020-DM-I(A) dated Mar. 24, 2020 (21-day nationwide lockdown from Mar. 25, 2020), with Guidelines (Ex. FOR-029); extended Apr. 14 (to May 3), May 1 (to May 17), May 17 (to May 31, 2020); 'Unlock' orders from June 1, 2020Nationwide lockdown order | Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India (Home Secretary), under s. 10(2)(l) of the Disaster Management Act, 2005 | India (Union)Foreign government | Mar. 24, 2020 | 2020 Q2 | Context (guidance or announcement)Stay-at-homeBusiness closureTravel and quarantineSupply chain | Primary source read | |
| Ex. FOR-029 | Guidelines on the measures to be taken by Ministries/Departments of Government of India, State/Union Territory Governments and State/Union Territory Authorities for containment of COVID-19 epidemic in the country (Annexure to Order No. 40-3/2020-DM-I(A), Mar. 24, 2020)Lockdown Guidelines (Annexure) | Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India | India (Union)Foreign government | Mar. 24, 2020 | 2020 Q2 | Context (guidance or announcement)Stay-at-homeBusiness closureTravel and quarantineSupply chain | Primary source read | |
| Ex. FOR-017 | The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) Regulations 2020, SI 2020/350First national lockdown: closure of businesses; restrictions on movement and gatherings | Secretary of State for Health and Social Care | United Kingdom - EnglandForeign government | Mar. 26, 2020 | 2020 Q22020 Q3 | Context (guidance or announcement)Stay-at-homeBusiness closureGathering cap | Primary source read | |
| Ex. FOR-006 | ACUERDO por el que se declara como emergencia sanitaria por causa de fuerza mayor, a la epidemia de enfermedad generada por el virus SARS-CoV2 (COVID-19) (DOF Mar. 30, 2020)Acuerdo declaring a sanitary emergency by force majeure | Consejo de Salubridad General | Mexico (federal)Foreign government | Mar. 30, 2020 | 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3 | Context (guidance or announcement)Emergency declaration | Primary source read | |
| Ex. FOR-007 | ACUERDO por el que se establecen acciones extraordinarias para atender la emergencia sanitaria generada por el virus SARS-CoV2 (DOF Mar. 31, 2020)Acuerdo establishing extraordinary actions: immediate suspension of non-essential activities | Secretaria de Salud | Mexico (federal)Foreign government | Mar. 31, 2020 | 2020 Q2 | Context (guidance or announcement)Stay-at-homeBusiness closureSupply chain | Primary source read | |
| 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-026 | Declaration of a State of Emergency (Apr. 7, 2020), expanded nationwide Apr. 16, 2020Declaration of a State of Emergency | Prime Minister of Japan (Cabinet), under art. 32(1) of the Act on Special Measures for Pandemic Influenza and New Infectious Diseases Preparedness and Response (Act No. 31 of 2012) | JapanForeign government | Apr. 7, 2020 | 2020 Q2 | Context (guidance or announcement)Emergency declarationStay-at-homeBusiness closureGathering cap | Primary source read | |
| Ex. FOR-008 | ACUERDO por el que se modifica el similar por el que se establecen acciones extraordinarias para atender la emergencia sanitaria generada por el virus SARS-CoV2 (DOF Apr. 21, 2020)Acuerdo extending the suspension of non-essential activities to May 30, 2020 | Secretaria de Salud | Mexico (federal)Foreign government | Apr. 21, 2020 | 2020 Q2 | Context (guidance or announcement)Stay-at-homeBusiness closureSupply chain | Primary source read | |
| Ex. FOR-019 | The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) (No. 4) Regulations 2020, SI 2020/1200Second national lockdown | Secretary of State for Health and Social Care | United Kingdom - EnglandForeign government | Nov. 3, 2020 | 2020 Q4 | Context (guidance or announcement)Stay-at-homeBusiness closureGathering cap | Primary source read | |
| Ex. FOR-020 | The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (No. 3) and (All Tiers) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2021, SI 2021/8Third national lockdown (all of England placed in Tier 4) | Secretary of State for Health and Social Care | United Kingdom - EnglandForeign government | Jan. 5, 2021 | 2021 Q1 | Context (guidance or announcement)Stay-at-homeBusiness closureGathering cap | Primary source read | |
| Ex. FOR-045 | Declaration of a State of Emergency in response to the Novel Coronavirus Disease (Jan. 7, 2021) (Tokyo, Saitama, Chiba, Kanagawa; expanded Jan. 13, 2021 to Osaka, Kyoto, Hyogo, Aichi, Gifu, Fukuoka, Tochigi)[COVID-19] Declaration of a State of Emergency (January 7) | Government of Japan (Prime Minister's Office), under art. 32(1) of the Act on Special Measures | JapanForeign government | Jan. 7, 2021 | 2021 Q1 | Context (guidance or announcement)Emergency declarationBusiness closureGathering capCurfew and hours | Primary source read | |
| 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 | |