Air travel has a decisive role in the spread of infectious diseases at global level. We present a methodology applied during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic that uses detailed aviation data at final destination level in order to measure the risk of the disease spreading outside China. The approach proved to be successful in terms of identifying countries with a high risk of infected travellers and as a tool to monitor the evolution of the pandemic in different countries. The high number of undetected or asymptomatic cases of COVID-19, however, limits the capacity of the approach to model the full dynamics. As a result, the risk for countries with a low number of passengers from the Hubei province appeared as low. Globalisation and international aviation connectivity allow travel times that are much lower than the incubation period of infectious diseases, a fact that raises the question of how to react in a potential new pandemic.
CHRISTIDIS Panayotis;
CHRISTODOULOU Aris;
2020-06-15
MDPI
JRC120595
1660-4601 (online),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC120595,
10.3390/ijerph17103356 (online),
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