The research conducted by scientists from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the University College London stated that to keep the virus under control, at least 75 per cent of people with symptoms must be found and 68 per cent of their contacts traced.
Another effective way of preventing a second wave would be if both 87 per cent of people with symptoms were found and 40 per cent of their contacts traced, assuming that around 70 per cent of people will return to workplaces once schools are fully reopened in September.
According to the experts, in either case, the reproduction number, which refers to the average number of secondary infections produced by a single infected person, will rise above one, resulting in a second peak of infections 2.0 – 2.
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