| dc.description.abstract | The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic can hardly be overstated. In February 2020, the World
Health Organisation recommended to prioritize extensive testing and contact tracing to contain
the virus. Through bidirectional contact tracing, we can not only find the people infected by
an infectious individual, but the infector of the individual as well. Theoretically, this makes
bidirectional contact tracing an effective countermeasure for diseases where a proportion of
the population is asymptomatic or a super spreader. Due to its recursive nature, it is hard
to incorporate the effects of bidirectional contact tracing into existing analytical models for
infectious diseases. Instead, we built an event-by-event simulation model. Using this simulation
model, we obtain results regarding the effectiveness of bidirectional contact tracing in various
scenarios. | |
