Modelling the impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions on the spread of COVID-19 in Saudi Arabia.

ABSTRACT: Countries around the world have implemented a series of interventions to contain the pandemic of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), and significant lessons can be drawn from the study of the full transmission dynamics of the disease caused by-severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)-in the Eastern, Madinah, Makkah, and Riyadh regions of Saudi Arabia, where robust non-pharmaceutical interventions effectively suppressed the local outbreak of this disease. On the basis of 333732 laboratory-confirmed cases, we used mathematical modelling to reconstruct the complete spectrum dynamics of COVID-19 in Saudi Arabia between 2 March and 25 September 2020 over 5 periods characterised by events and interventions. Our model account for asymptomatic and presymptomatic infectiousness, tim

SUBMITTER: Althobaity Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9842221 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature