Contact tracing is an imperfect tool for controlling COVID-19 transmission and relies on population adherence

E.L.D., T.C.D.L., A.B., D.A., L.P., T.M.P., G.F.M. & T.D.H. gratefully acknowledge funding of the NTD Modelling Consortium (NTDMC) by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) (grant no. OPP1184344). E.L.D., L.P. & T.D.H. gratefully acknowledge funding from the MRC COVID-19 UKRI/DHSC Rapid Response grant MR/V028618/1 and JUNIPER Consortium (MR/V038613/1). The following funding sources are acknowledged as providing funding for the named authors. This research was partly funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (NTDMC: OPP1184344: G.F.M.). This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme - project EpiPose (101003688: P.K.). Royal Society (RP/EA/180004: P.K.). Wellcome Trust (210758/Z/18/Z: J.H., S.A.). Views, opinions, assumptions or any other information set out in this article should not be attributed to BMGF or any person connected with them. T.C. is funded by a Sir Henry Wellcome Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust (215919/Z/19/Z). T.M.P.’s PhD is supported by the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council, Medical Research Council and University of Warwick (EP/L015374/1) and thanks Big Data Institute for hosting him. All funders had no role in the study design, collection, analysis, interpretation of data, writing of the report, or decision to submit the manuscript for publication