Here I explore the intriguing spatial patterns that emerge in a two-dimensional spatially inhomogeneous Katz-Lebowitz-Spohn (KLS) driven lattice gas with attractive nearest-neighbor interactions.

The COVID-19 pandemic constitutes a severe global health crisis. Many countries have implemented stringent non-pharmaceutical control measures that involve social distancing and mobility reduction in their populations. Once an epidemic outbreak has been effectively contained through non-pharmaceutical interventions, a safe protocol is required for the subsequent release of social distancing restrictions to prevent a disastrous resurgence of the infection. Here I discuss the individual-based numerical simulations of stochastic susceptible-infectious-recovered model variants on lattices.