An agent-based model for household COVID-19 transmission in Gauteng, South Africa.

ABSTRACT: Since the discovery of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China in 2019, close to seven million people have died from the infection. At the onset of the pandemic, many countries enacted stringent measures such as school and event closings in a bid to control and curtail the spread of the virus, leading to many within-household infections as people spent more time at home. This study develops an agent-based model (ABM) to gain insight into the impact of government COVID-19 mitigation guidelines and policy options on within-household and community COVID-19 infections in Gauteng, South Africa. Gauteng is the province in South Africa having the smallest land area, but it accounts for 25.8% of the country's population. Agents are randomly assigned to cells on a [Formula: see text] square grid varying according

SUBMITTER: Agusto FB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12266425 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature