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We consider a multi-population epidemic model with one or more (almost) isolated communities and one mobile community. Each of the isolated communities has contact within itself and, in addition, contact with the outside world but only through the mobile community. The contact rate between the mobile community and the other communities is assumed to be controlled. We first derive a multidimensional ordinary differential equation (ODE) as a mean-field fluid approximation to the process of the number of infected nodes, after appropriate scaling. We show that the approximation becomes tight as the sizes of the communities grow. We then use a singular perturbation approach to reduce the dimension of the ODE and identify an optimal control policy on this system over a fixed time horizon via Pontryagins minimum principle. We then show that this policy is close to optimal, within a certain class, on the original problem for large enough communities. From a phenomenological perspective, we show that the epidemic may sustain in time in all communities (and thus the system has a nontrivial metastable regime) even though in the absence of the mobile nodes the epidemic would die out quickly within each of the isolated communities.
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