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lockdown
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A lockdown () is a restriction policy for people, community or a country to stay where they are, usually due to specific risks that could possibly harm the people if they move and interact freely.
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Encyclopedic overview
16 sectionsContents
- Types
- Preventive lockdown
- Emergency lockdown
- Purposes
- In epidemics and pandemics
- 2009 swine flu pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic
- Typical scenarios
- Schools
- Prisons
- Hospitals
- Lean manufacturing process
- Newsworthy lockdowns
- See also
- References
- External links
A lockdown () is a restriction policy for people, community or a country to stay where they are, usually due to specific risks that could possibly harm the people if they move and interact freely.
The term is used for a prison protocol that usually prevents people, information or objects from leaving an area. The protocol can usually only be initiated by someone in a position of authority.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “lockdown” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.