Cross-Regional Analysis of the Association Between Human Mobility and COVID-19 Infection in Southeast Asia During the Transition Period of “Living With COVID-19”
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Keywords: Covid-19, Human mobility, Delta variant, The Geographically and Temporally Regression Model, Southeast Asia
Abstract Type: Virtual Paper Abstract
Authors:
Wei Luo, National University of Singapore
Yuxuan Zhou, National University of Singapore
Zhaoyin Liu, National University of Singapore
Wei Kang, University of North Texas
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Abstract
Due to a gradually boosting vaccination rate and developing systematic protocols in response to COVID-19, governments in Southeast Asia began to shift the intervention strategy from restrictions to “Living with COVID-19” since the second half of the year 2021. Noticeably, the timeline of loosening strategy in different Southeast Asian countries was diverse, which resulted in different patterns of human mobility changes in space and time. This thus presents an opportunity to study the relationship between mobility and the number of infection cases across regions. This study aimed to investigate the association between human mobility and COVID-19 infections in space and time during the transition period of shifting strategies from restrictions to normal living in Southeast Asia. We adopted the Geographically and Temporally Weighted Regression model to identify the spatiotemporal variations of the association between human mobility and COVID-19 infections at the district level from 01-Jun-2021 to 26-Dec-2021 over 30 weeks. Our study benefits public health authorities with the adjustment of targeted interventions to respond to the public health crisis.
Cross-Regional Analysis of the Association Between Human Mobility and COVID-19 Infection in Southeast Asia During the Transition Period of “Living With COVID-19”
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Virtual Paper Abstract
