The CoronaNet Research Project compiles a database on government responses to COVID-19. Our main focus is to collect as much information as we can about the various fine-grained actions governments are taking to defeat the pandemic. This includes not only gathering information about which governments are responding to COVID-19, but who they are targeting the policies toward (e.g. other countries), how they are doing it (e.g. travel restrictions, banning exports of masks) and when they are doing it.

Together with more than 500 political, social and public health science scholars from all over the world, we present an initial release of a large hand-coded dataset of more than 60,000 separate policy announcements from governments around the world visible since 31 December 2019. Our dataset has already been used by policymakers, academics, and journalists, and we expect to be able to offer more thorough analysis of government responses (both determinants and effects) as we collect more data.