Nature Asia | By Subhra Priyadarshini
Alternate weeks of strict restrictions and milder physical distancing may be a good way for parts of India to exit the lockdown after 3 May 2020, predicts a new model that also bears at heart the socio-economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic.
As Indian public health policy makers draft region-specific lockdown exit policies, a new computer-based model suggests that a combination of strict and mild restrictions imposed alternate weeks may best slow the spread of the novel coronavirus while minimising any further social and economic harm.
A team of researchers at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US has developed an agent-based model1 (a computer simulation which considers each person as an 'agent' capable of free interaction in a population) that projects a realistic 'middle ground' of non-pharmaceutical interventions to contain the virus while still protecting the interests of those living in the fringes of society...
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