City-Scale Agent-Based Simulators for the Study of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions in the Context of the COVID-19 Epidemic

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Shubhada Agrawal, Siddharth Bhandari, Anirban Bhattacharjee, Anand Deo, Narendra M. Dixit, Prahladh Harsha, Sandeep Juneja, Poonam Kesarwani, Aditya Krishna Swamy, Preetam Patil

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Nihesh Rathod, Ramprasad Saptharishi, Sharad Shriram, Piyush Srivastava, Rajesh Sundaresan, Nidhin Koshy Vaidhiyan, Sarath Yasodharan

/ Abstract

We highlight the usefulness of city-scale agent-based simulators in studying various non-pharmaceutical interventions to manage an evolving pandemic. We ground our studies in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and demonstrate the power of the simulator via several exploratory case studies in two metropolises, Bengaluru and Mumbai. Such tools become common-place in any city administration's tool kit in our march towards digital health.