The effects of mobility on the COVID 19 pandemic: Case study the Metropolitan Area of Mexico City

Abstract

The current COVID 19 world health crisis has been largely due, among other factors, to the easiness of today's society to move between areas and regions in the territory. The patterns of movements and personal contact, as well as the possibility of traveling long distances in a relatively short time, have favored the growth of the pandemic phenomenon. Many human activities have changed in their performance, and many of these changes will remain in the future. Limitations to mobility have been a favored strategy by governments in an attempt to combat the spread out of the virus. Since the outbreak in Wuhan, China, governments have imposed severe travel restrictions on all modes and transportation in order to control the pandemic. The purposes of this paper aretwofold; todevelop a cognitive framework based on complex systems to frame the pandemic and, to measure the relationship between COVID cases and person trips. A correlation model applied to the Metroplitan Area of Mexico City shows that there is a high correlation between the two varariables.