Recent decades have seen a rise in the use of physics methods to study different societal
phenomena. This development has been due to physicists venturing outside of their …

Efforts to curtail the spread of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV2) have led to the
unprecedented concurrent confinement of nearly two-thirds of the global population. The …

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 is currently spreading across the
world at an alarming rate, resulting in the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. Amidst this …

Considerando-se a situação atual mundial, marcada por importantes crises na saúde
pública e, mais recentemente, a pandemia causada pela COVID-19, o presente artigo …

Responding to the ongoing novel coronavirus (agent of COVID-19) outbreak, China
implemented “the largest quarantine in human history” in Wuhan on 23 January 2020 …

We quantify the causal impact of human mobility restrictions, particularly the lockdown of
Wuhan on January 23, 2020, on the containment and delay of the spread of the Novel …

Background This paper looks into the impact of the recent COVID-19 epidemic on the daily
mobility of people. Existing research into the epidemic travel patterns points at transport as a …

Italy has been severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, reporting the highest death toll
in Europe as of April 2020. Following the identification of the first infections, on February 21 …

Background The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic has spread from
China to 25 countries. Local cycles of transmission have already occurred in 12 countries …

Data on COVID-19 supports targeted social distancing could be an effective way to reduce
morbidity and mortality, but could inadvertently increase stigma for affected populations. As …