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Journal Article
Mathematical modelling of the dynamics and containment of COVID-19 in Ukraine
2020
Overview
COVID-19 disease caused by the novel SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus has already brought unprecedented challenges for public health and resulted in huge numbers of cases and deaths worldwide. In the absence of effective vaccine, different countries have employed various other types of non-pharmaceutical interventions to contain the spread of this disease, including quarantines and lockdowns, tracking, tracing and isolation of infected individuals, and social distancing measures. Effectiveness of these and other measures of disease containment and prevention to a large degree depends on good understanding of disease dynamics, and robust mathematical models play an important role in forecasting its future dynamics. In this paper we focus on Ukraine, one of Europe’s largest countries, and develop a mathematical model of COVID-19 dynamics, using latest data on parameters characterising clinical features of disease. For improved accuracy, our model includes age-stratified disease parameters, as well as age- and location-specific contact matrices to represent contacts. We show that the model is able to provide an accurate short-term forecast for the numbers and age distribution of cases and deaths. We also simulated different lockdown scenarios, and the results suggest that reducing work contacts is more efficient at reducing the disease burden than reducing school contacts, or implementing shielding for people over 60.
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group UK,Nature Publishing Group
Subject
/ 639/705
/ Adult
/ Aged
/ Child
/ COVID-19
/ COVID-19 - prevention & control
/ Epidemics - prevention & control
/ Epidemics - statistics & numerical data
/ Hospitalization - statistics & numerical data
/ Humanities and Social Sciences
/ Humans
/ Infant
/ Infection Control - statistics & numerical data
/ Quarantine - statistics & numerical data
/ Science
/ Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
/ Ukraine
