Mathematician comes up with model to help reopening of the economy

Lim working on his mathematical model based on daily new cases per district and the RO rate. He says he still needs to incorporate ICU data. — ZHAFARAN NASIB/The Star

IN his bid to help the country contain the Covid-19 virus, Penangite Dr David Benjamin Lim has come up with a programme to better gauge the situation at the district level.

His model, meant to help the gradual reopening of the economic sectors, is based on two things — the daily new cases per 100,000 population in a district and the R-naught (RO) infection rate.