The Assessment Capacities Project ACAPS Government Measures dataset captures action taken by governments in response to COVID-19 and regroups them into five categories: Social distancing, Movement restrictions, Public health measures, Social and Economic measures. The information is collected from a variety publicly available web sources such as governments (official sites, embassies), media, the United Nations agencies and other organizations. This database aims to capture the chronological evolution of government responses: if a measure is extended, another data point is added; if a measure is phase-out another data point is added.