How do the smart travel ban policy and intercity travel pattern affect COVID-19 trends? Lessons learned from Iran

ABSTRACT: COVID-19, as the most significant epidemic of the century, infected 467 million people and took the lives of more than 6 million individuals as of March 19, 2022. Due to the rapid transmission of the disease and the lack of definitive treatment, countries have employed nonpharmaceutical interventions. This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of the smart travel ban policy, which has been implemented for non-commercial vehicles in the intercity highways of Iran since November 21, 2020. The other goal was to suggest efficient COVID-19 forecasting tools and to examine the association of intercity travel patterns and COVID-19 trends in Iran. To this end, weekly confirmed cases and deaths due to COVID-19 and the intercity traffic flow reported by loop detectors were aggregated at the c

SUBMITTER: Nassiri H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9578609 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature