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For example, several studies have shown that COVID-19 transmission was higher in poorer and denser neighborhoods than in wealthier ones. However, what is less well known is how this varied rate of transmission interacted with established health measures, i.e., face masks and lockdowns, in the context of developing countries to reduce pandemic cases and hence resulted in fewer deaths. This study uses an Agent-Based Model (ABM) simulation to examine the context and impacts of COVID-19 mitigation efforts (i.e., lockdowns combined with masks) on the transmission of COVID-19 across a single neighborhood in Ahmedabad, a city in the state of Gujarat, India. The model is parameterized using real-world population data, which allows us to simulate the spread of COVID-19 to find conditions that most closely match the realities of COVID-19 in the spring of 2020. Consequently, the simulation can be used to understand the impact of nation-wide lockdown on the spread of COVID cases across Ahmedabad as a function of housing density. Thus, invaluable insight into the effectiveness of a lockdown as a mitigation measure can be derived. Further information about how the effectiveness of the lockdown varied by neighborhood, as well as other factors that impacted it, can be ascertained.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijgi13060208","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,6,17]],"date-time":"2024-06-17T06:29:43Z","timestamp":1718605783000},"page":"208","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Agent-Based Modeling of COVID-19 Transmission: A Case Study of Housing Densities in Sankalitnagar, Ahmedabad"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"given":"Molly","family":"French","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geography, McGill University, 805 Sherbrooke St W, Montreal, QC H3A 0B9, Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9058-6890","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Amit","family":"Patel","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston, 100 Morrissey Blvd, Boston, MA 02125, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0896-9559","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Abid","family":"Qureshi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Indian Institute of Public Health, Gandhinagar 382042, Gujarat, India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Deepak","family":"Saxena","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Indian Institute of Public Health, Gandhinagar 382042, Gujarat, India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Raja","family":"Sengupta","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geography, McGill University, 805 Sherbrooke St W, Montreal, QC H3A 0B9, Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,6,17]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"164","DOI":"10.1016\/j.envsoft.2014.08.027","article-title":"An agent-based modeling approach applied to the spread of cholera","volume":"62","author":"Crooks","year":"2014","journal-title":"Environ. 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