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ArticleApplied mathematics and computation2021

The effectiveness of contact tracing in mitigating COVID-19 outbreak: A model-based analysis in the context of India.

Dhiraj Kumar Das, Anupam Khatua, T K Kar, Soovoojeet Jana

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Article in Applied mathematics and computation, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Dhiraj Kumar DasDepartment of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, Howrah 711103, India.
Anupam KhatuaDepartment of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, Howrah 711103, India.
T K KarDepartment of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, Howrah 711103, India.
Soovoojeet JanaDepartment of Mathematics, Ramsaday College, Amta, Howrah 711401, India.
Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur · IN

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The ongoing pandemic situation due to COVID-19 originated from the Wuhan city, China affects the world in an unprecedented scale. Unavailability of totally effective vaccination and proper treatment regimen forces to employ a non-pharmaceutical way of disease mitigation. The world is in desperate demand of useful control intervention to combat the deadly virus. This manuscript introduces a new mathematical model that addresses two different diagnosis efforts and isolation of confirmed cases. The basic reproductive number,

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Contact tracingCOVID-19 transmission modelDiagnosis and isolationOptimal control problem

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PMID33758439
PMCPMC7972665
OpenAlexW3137580962

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