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Cities — try to predict superspreading hotspots for COVID-19

Tracking how people move around urban areas can pinpoint where disease might transmit fastest and farthest.
  1. Roland Bouffanais

    1. Roland Bouffanais is an associate professor at Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore.

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  2. Sun Sun Lim

    1. Sun Sun Lim is a professor and head of humanities, arts and social sciences at Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore.

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Two months ago in Singapore, walkers, joggers and cyclists in Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park got a surprise — a robotic dog nipping at their heels. It ‘barked’ at them to stay metres away from others. No tactic seems too outlandish to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, which has confined billions of people across the world to their homes.

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Nature 583, 352-355 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02072-3

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