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The purpose of this study was to clarify the changes of physical function and anxiety for activities of daily living in community\u2010dwelling older adults, focusing on locomotor function during the COVID\u201019 pandemic.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>The study participants were 127 older people who participated in successive surveys, in the summers of 2019 and again in 2020, after the state of emergency. The Locomo 25 questionnaire, Geriatric Depression Scale\u201015 (GDS\u201015) questionnaire, medical history, and number of people living together were self\u2010reported. The Locomo 25 covers six aspects of physical pain, movement\u2010related difficulty, usual care, daily activity, social activities, and anxiety.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>The paired samples <jats:italic>t<\/jats:italic>\u2010test revealed that Locomo 25 total scores in 2020 were significantly higher than those in 2019. The GDS\u201015 score showed no significant difference. The comparison of scores for each item of the Locomo 25 revealed significantly higher scores in 2020 on Q21 (\u2018difficult to perform sports activity\u2019, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u00a0=\u00a00.0021), Q22 (\u2018restricted from meeting own friends\u2019, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009&lt;\u20090.001), Q23 (\u2018restricted from joining social activities\u2019, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009&lt;\u20090.001), Q24 (\u2018anxious about falling in own house\u2019, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u00a0=\u00a00.0023), and Q25 (\u2018anxious about being unable to walk in the future\u2019, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u00a0=\u00a00.0016).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title><jats:p>About 2\u2009months after declaration of the first state of emergency due to the COVID\u201019 pandemic in Japan, social activity was severely restricted. 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