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DOI: https://doi.org/10.13306/j.1672-3813.2020.04.001

Intervention and Control of COVID-19 Requires both Community-Based Monitoring and Contact Tracing

  • ZHAO Ziming ,
  • GOU Wensha ,
  • GAO Xiaohui ,
  • CHEN Qinghua ,
  • ZHAO Ziming ,
  • GOU Wensha ,
  • GAO Xiaohui ,
  • CHEN Qinghua
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  • 1. School of Systems Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China;
    2. School of Statistics, Shanxi University of Finance and Economics, Taiyuan 030006, China;
    3. New England Complex Systems Institute, Cambridge 02139, American;
    4. Department of Chemistry, Brandeis University, Waltham 02453, American

Received date: 2020-05-26

  Revised date: 2020-07-02

  Online published: 2020-12-21

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Abstract

There is growing evidence that the current worldwide epidemic of COVID-19 has many asymptomatic infections. This raises new questions for the study of medical researchers, and it is also new challenge for non-medical interventions. Based on the SEIR model with periodic boundary, this study simulates the actual spread of pathogens and the interventions by multi-agent simulation. The simulations show that epidemic prevention and control can be feasible only with the joint intervention of the two measures when there are asymptomatic infections, one cannot leave without. Our results are of guiding importance for the prevention and control of epidemic situation in the world.

Key words： asymptomatic infection; community-based monitoring; contact tracing; epidemic prevention and control; multi-agent systems; SEIR model

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ZHAO Ziming , GOU Wensha , GAO Xiaohui , CHEN Qinghua , ZHAO Ziming , GOU Wensha , GAO Xiaohui , CHEN Qinghua . Intervention and Control of COVID-19 Requires both Community-Based Monitoring and Contact Tracing[J]. Complex Systems and Complexity Science, 2020 , 17(4) : 1 -8 . DOI: 10.13306/j.1672-3813.2020.04.001

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