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: Received: 19 March 2021 / Approved: 29 March 2021 / Online: 29 March 2021 (12:31:54 CEST)
How to cite:
Tamagusko, T.; Ferreira, A. Mobility Patterns of the Portuguese Population During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Study. Preprints2021, 2021030689. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202103.0689.v1
Tamagusko, T.; Ferreira, A. Mobility Patterns of the Portuguese Population During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Study. Preprints 2021, 2021030689. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202103.0689.v1
Tamagusko, T.; Ferreira, A. Mobility Patterns of the Portuguese Population During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Study. Preprints2021, 2021030689. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202103.0689.v1
APA Style
Tamagusko, T., & Ferreira, A. (2021). Mobility Patterns of the Portuguese Population During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Study. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202103.0689.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Tamagusko, T. and Adelino Ferreira. 2021 "Mobility Patterns of the Portuguese Population During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Study" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202103.0689.v1
Abstract
This study analyzes the relationship between the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus (COVID-19) and the mobility patterns of the Portuguese population. By reducing mobility, the idea is that contacts are reduced, countering the spread of the virus in the community. As an indicator of the spread of the virus, the reproduction number (Rt) was used. Data from Google's Community Mobility Reports was used to evaluate changes in mobility patterns. This report uses location data from Android mobile phone users. The locations are divided into retail and recreation, grocery and pharmacy, parks, transit stations, workplaces and residential. In this year of the COVID-19 crisis in Portugal, population mobility patterns have changed over the various phases of the pandemic. At first, all mobility was affected uniformly, with the population avoiding much of the activity outside the home. In a second phase, there was some adaptation, and the areas considered to be of lower risk had less impact, emphasizing the changes in the relationship between daily life and the workplace.
Keywords
COVID-19; mobility patterns; Rt; changepoint; modeling; Portugal; Longitudinal Study
Subject
Engineering, Civil Engineering
Copyright:
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
