A paper published on arXiv has presented a mathematical model of the spread of infection in a population, structured by age and social contact between ages, which predicts that 49 days of mitigatory social distancing through lockdown would be necessary for India to successfully overcome the ongoing COVID-19 crisis.
The Authors, Rajesh Singh and R. Adhikari are from the DAMTP, University of Cambridge and the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India respectively.
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