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  • Computational Modeling

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  • Understanding spatio-temporal dynamics is crucial for effective control.

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  • To model the impact of human mobility on COVID-19 outbreak dynamics.
  • To evaluate the effectiveness of different confinement strategies.

Main Methods:

  • Developed an epidemiological model for a city with a complex mobility network.
  • Simulated three confinement strategies: global, partial, and localized.

Main Results:

  • Global confinement effectively prevents massive outbreaks.
  • Partial mobility restrictions necessitate complementary measures (masks, social distancing).
  • Localized confinement, based on block-specific health status, successfully contains and reduces outbreaks, including with asymptomatic individuals.

Conclusions:

  • Targeted, localized confinement is a highly effective strategy for controlling COVID-19.
  • The model demonstrates the importance of mobility patterns in disease transmission.
  • Asymptomatic cases can be managed with adaptive, localized interventions.