New discoveries on the containment of COVID-19 finds travel bans are of limited value
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25 February 2021New discoveries on the containment of COVID-19 finds travel bans are of limited value
Travel bans have been key to efforts by many countries to control the spread of COVID-19. But new research aimed at providing a decision support system to Italian policy makers, recently published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface, suggests that reducing individual activity (i.e., social distancing, closure of non-essential business, etc.) is far superior in controlling the dissemination of Sars-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
