Currently, no pharmaceutical treatment or vaccine is approved for the treatment of Coronavirus. Due to these reasons,
most countries turn to non-pharmaceutical approach such as social distancing. Social distancing includes strategies to
ban public gatherings and advise individuals to stay at their home or maintain distance to one another by at least 1-2
meters. This study aims to intend to assess all the available evidence of social distancing in decreasing COVID-19
transmission in the general population. This study is a systematic review that was conducted an electronic search of
published literature using MEDLINE/Pubmed, Science direct, PMC, Wiley, and Google Scholar and we use Joanna
Briggs Institute (JBI) critical appraisal checklist to assess methodological qualities. A total of 7 articles were decided to
be included in this study. Social distancing has curb down the number and saved approximately 10 thousand Brazilian
lives. A study by VoPham et al on the association of social distancing and COVID-19 incidence found higher social
distancing was associated with a 29% reduction of COVID-19 incidence (adjusted IRR 0.71;95% CI (0,57-0,87) and
35% reduction of COVID-19 mortality (adjusted IRR 0,65; 95% CI 0,55-0,76). Social distancing is one of the major
policies implemented for long-term behavioral adjustment in managing the COVID-19 pandemic. Passive social
distancing is not enough to drag down the number, there needs to be large scale testing, isolation, and contact tracing.
However, we believe we have illuminated the impact of social distancing on the COVID-19 pandemic and add to the
available literature the basis of social distancing in reducing transmission of COVID-19.