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. 2020 May 29;20(11):3089. doi: 10.3390/s20113089
Algorithm 1. Importance of social distancing by flattening the curve of afflicted population over specific days
   Step 1: Initialize necessary parameters as follows to create a simulated town infected with COVID-19 –
       days = 100/*lockdown days*/
       population = 200,000/*population of the town*/
       spread_factor = 0.25/*COVID-19 transmission rate (0 < f ≤ 5) */
       days_to_recover = 10/*maximum recovery days from COVID-19*/
       inital_afflicted_people = 5/*initial infected people of the town with COVID-19*/
   Step 2: Initialize a data frame (“town”) for the simulated town with the following four features –
       id = range(population)/* id € (0- population) */
       infected = false
       recovery_day = none
       recovered = false
   Step 3: Initialize the initial cases (“initialCases”) with inital_afflicted_people variable,
      update corresponding infected feature as true, and
      update recovery_day feature with days_to_recover variable
   Step 4: Initialize the initial active cases (“active_cases”) with initally_afflicted variable and
      initial recovered cases (“recovery”) with 0.
   Step 5:
       for day = 1 to days do
           Step 5.1: Mark the people of town data frame, who have recovered on current day
               - update the feature recovery_day as True and infected feature as False
               if they have crossed days_to_recover else ignore.
           Step 5.2: Calculate the number of people who are afflicted today with spread_factor
               - calculate number of people infected in the town data frame based on
               feature infected = True
               -multiply the count of total infected people with spread_factor to
               calculate total possible cases of infected people on current day
           Step 5.3: Forget people who were already infected in cases of current day
           Step 5.4: Mark the new cases as afflicted, and their recovery day by updating
               active_cases and recovery lists of the town data frame.
   Step 6: Repeat the step 5 for spread_factor = 0.25 to 5.0 and plot every distribution graph of active_cases over days.