Controlling the Pandemic of COVID-19 based on Telecommunication Data

Mobile phones as a pervasive tool may have several applications in the field of preventing the spread of infectious diseases. Many countries used it in recent years to control Ebola and SARS in Africa, and today controlling COVID-19 in China and Singapore. Since now an effective way to reduce or stop the spread of the disease is social isolation and quarantine while the mobile phone could be an effective tool for patient control. In this paper, a non-invasive method presented for controlling prevalence of COVID-19 disease. It is based on the records of subscriber’s transactions in the mobile network. Many valuable data could be obtained by analyzing these records, such as identifying quarantine offenders during illness, the number of interprovince trips while restrictions were imposed, and the density of patients in different parts of the city or country.