Abstract: AbstractBackgroundTo mitigate the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, some countries have adopted more stringent non-pharmaceutical interventions in contrast to those widely used (for e.g. the state of Kuwait). In addition to standard practices such as enforcing curfews, social distancing, and closure of non-essential service industries, other non-conventional policies such as the total confinement of highly populated areas has also been implemented.MethodsIn this paper, we model the movement of a host population using a mechanistic approach ba...
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Economic geography
Econometrics