Here  we focus on the data analysis of the growth of epidemic spreading of Covid-19 in countries where different policies of containment have been activated. It is known that the growth of the pandemic spreading at its threshold is exponential  but it is not known how to quantify the success of different containment policies. We identify that a successful approach gives an arrested phase regime following the Ostwald growth, where in the course of time  one phase transforms into another metastable phase with a similar free energy as observed in oxygen interstitials diffusion in quantum complex matter and in crystallization of proteins. We introduce the s factor which provides a quantitative measure of the efficiency and speed of the adopted containment policy, which is very helpful not only to monitor the Covid-19 pandemic spreading but also for other countries to choose the best containment policy. The results show that the policy based in joint confinement, targeted tests  and tracking positive cases is the most rapid pandemic containment policy in fact we have found for China, South Korea, and Italy the values of the success s factor 9, 5, 32 respectively where the lowest s value indicates the best containment policy .
Here , we focus on the data analysis of the growth of epidemic spread of Covid-19 in countries where different policies of containment were activated. It is known that the growth of pandemic spread at its threshold is exponential , but it is not known how to quantify the success of different containment policies. We identify that a successful approach gives an arrested phase regime following the Ostwald growth, where , over the course of time , one phase transforms into another metastable phase with a similar free energy as observed in oxygen interstitial diffusion in quantum complex matter and in crystallization of proteins. We introduce the s factor which provides a quantitative measure of the efficiency and speed of the adopted containment policy, which is very helpful not only to monitor the Covid-19 pandemic spread but also for other countries to choose the best containment policy. The results show that a policy based on joint confinement, targeted tests , and tracking positive cases is the most rapid pandemic containment policy ; in fact, we found values of 9, 5, and 31 for the success s factor for China, South Korea, and Italy, respectively, where the lowest s factor indicates the best containment policy 
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