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Changes in mobility patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic in Zambia: Implications for the effectiveness of NPIs in Sub-Saharan Africa

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted many facets of human behavior, including human mobility partially driven by the implementation of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) such as stay at home orders, travel restrictions, and workplace and school closures. Given the importance of human mobility in...

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Autores principales: Loisate, Stacie, Mutembo, Simon, Arambepola, Rohan, Makungo, Kabondo, Kabalo, Elliot N., Sinyange, Nyambe B., Kapata, Nathan, Liwewe, Mazyanga, Silumezi, Andrew, Chongwe, Gershom, Kostandova, Natalya, Truelove, Shaun, Wesolowski, Amy
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10617722/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37906535
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0000892
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author Loisate, Stacie
Mutembo, Simon
Arambepola, Rohan
Makungo, Kabondo
Kabalo, Elliot N.
Sinyange, Nyambe B.
Kapata, Nathan
Liwewe, Mazyanga
Silumezi, Andrew
Chongwe, Gershom
Kostandova, Natalya
Truelove, Shaun
Wesolowski, Amy
author_facet Loisate, Stacie
Mutembo, Simon
Arambepola, Rohan
Makungo, Kabondo
Kabalo, Elliot N.
Sinyange, Nyambe B.
Kapata, Nathan
Liwewe, Mazyanga
Silumezi, Andrew
Chongwe, Gershom
Kostandova, Natalya
Truelove, Shaun
Wesolowski, Amy
author_sort Loisate, Stacie
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description The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted many facets of human behavior, including human mobility partially driven by the implementation of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) such as stay at home orders, travel restrictions, and workplace and school closures. Given the importance of human mobility in the transmission of SARS-CoV-2, there have been an increase in analyses of mobility data to understand the COVID-19 pandemic to date. However, despite an abundance of these analyses, few have focused on Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Here, we use mobile phone calling data to provide a spatially refined analysis of sub-national human mobility patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic from March 2020-July 2021 in Zambia using transmission and mobility models. Overall, among highly trafficked intra-province routes, mobility decreased up to 52% during the time of the strictest NPIs (March-May 2020) compared to baseline. However, despite dips in mobility during the first wave of COVID-19 cases, mobility returned to baseline levels and did not drop again suggesting COVID-19 cases did not influence mobility in subsequent waves.
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spelling pubmed-106177222023-11-01 Changes in mobility patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic in Zambia: Implications for the effectiveness of NPIs in Sub-Saharan Africa Loisate, Stacie Mutembo, Simon Arambepola, Rohan Makungo, Kabondo Kabalo, Elliot N. Sinyange, Nyambe B. Kapata, Nathan Liwewe, Mazyanga Silumezi, Andrew Chongwe, Gershom Kostandova, Natalya Truelove, Shaun Wesolowski, Amy PLOS Glob Public Health Research Article The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted many facets of human behavior, including human mobility partially driven by the implementation of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) such as stay at home orders, travel restrictions, and workplace and school closures. Given the importance of human mobility in the transmission of SARS-CoV-2, there have been an increase in analyses of mobility data to understand the COVID-19 pandemic to date. However, despite an abundance of these analyses, few have focused on Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Here, we use mobile phone calling data to provide a spatially refined analysis of sub-national human mobility patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic from March 2020-July 2021 in Zambia using transmission and mobility models. Overall, among highly trafficked intra-province routes, mobility decreased up to 52% during the time of the strictest NPIs (March-May 2020) compared to baseline. However, despite dips in mobility during the first wave of COVID-19 cases, mobility returned to baseline levels and did not drop again suggesting COVID-19 cases did not influence mobility in subsequent waves. Public Library of Science 2023-10-31 /pmc/articles/PMC10617722/ /pubmed/37906535 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0000892 Text en © 2023 Loisate et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Loisate, Stacie
Mutembo, Simon
Arambepola, Rohan
Makungo, Kabondo
Kabalo, Elliot N.
Sinyange, Nyambe B.
Kapata, Nathan
Liwewe, Mazyanga
Silumezi, Andrew
Chongwe, Gershom
Kostandova, Natalya
Truelove, Shaun
Wesolowski, Amy
Changes in mobility patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic in Zambia: Implications for the effectiveness of NPIs in Sub-Saharan Africa
title Changes in mobility patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic in Zambia: Implications for the effectiveness of NPIs in Sub-Saharan Africa
title_full Changes in mobility patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic in Zambia: Implications for the effectiveness of NPIs in Sub-Saharan Africa
title_fullStr Changes in mobility patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic in Zambia: Implications for the effectiveness of NPIs in Sub-Saharan Africa
title_full_unstemmed Changes in mobility patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic in Zambia: Implications for the effectiveness of NPIs in Sub-Saharan Africa
title_short Changes in mobility patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic in Zambia: Implications for the effectiveness of NPIs in Sub-Saharan Africa
title_sort changes in mobility patterns during the covid-19 pandemic in zambia: implications for the effectiveness of npis in sub-saharan africa
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10617722/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37906535
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0000892
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