Fig. 6: Effect of mobility: recurrent mobility.

Average global outbreak duration for sub-populations connected through recurrent mobility, and for two values of the portion of travelers (m). Also, different topologies and demographic statistics are inspected. Averages were performed over 100 realizations. Global outbreaks that do not end by the time \({t}_{\max }=4\times 1{0}^{4}\) are stopped. In (a, b), V = 400 sub-populations are connected forming a regular lattice with periodic boundary conditions. Demographics are Gaussian distributed. In (c, d), the topology is scale-free network with a degree distribution P(k) ~ k^−2.5 and with V = 400 sub-populations proportional to the degree. In (e, f), connectivity and populations are read from commuting data of the city of Paris (V = 469).