Discussion This study investigated the containment policies, mobility, and COVID-19 cases in Chile, Singapore, South Korea and Israel in response to COVID-19, to provide experience and lessons learned for studying the impact of containment policies on mobility and COVID-19, and for better response to COVID-19. Chile, Israel and Singapore adopted containment strategies, which aim to prevent spread of infections and prefer social intervention measures to block epidemics spread (Jiao et al., 2022).