When planning interventions to limit the spread of Covid-19, the current state of knowledge
about the disease and specific characteristics of the population need to be considered …

Contact tracing is a non-pharmaceutical intervention (NPI) widely used in the control of the
COVID-19 pandemic. Its effectiveness may depend on a number of factors including the …

This study systematically reviews applications of three simulation approaches, that is,
system dynamics model (SDM), agent‐based model (ABM) and discrete event simulation …

Background: Contact tracing in association with quarantine and isolation is an important
public health tool to control outbreaks of infectious diseases. This strategy has been widely …

Providing sufficient testing capacities and accurate results in a time-efficient way are
essential to prevent the spread and lower the curve of a health crisis, such as the COVID-19 …

SARS-CoV-2 started propagating worldwide in January 2020 and has now reached virtually
all communities on the planet. This short review provides evidence of this spread and …

The COVID-19 pandemic is considered to be the world's most urgent health disaster and the
greatest challenge humanity has faced since World War II. One of the most significant …

Objectives Due to the number of asymptomatic infections and limited access to high-
performance antibody tests, the true prevalence and seropositivity of SARS-CoV-2 infection …

Generating dynamic operators are constructed here from the cumulative case function to
recover all state dynamics of a Susceptible–Exposed–Infectious–Recovered (SEIR) model …

Background: Contact tracing is one of the most effective non-pharmaceutical interventions in
the COVID-19 pandemic. This study uses a multi-agent model to investigate the impact of …