Furthermore, any epidemic mitigation procedure can only be enforced after the epidemic has started and positive cases have been confirmed. Mitigation measures applied at the start of epidemic is ideal but may not be practical. Hence, good performance when applied late into the epidemic is critical for a mitigation method to be successful. Figure 5b hints at a the promising potential our proposed targeted strategy can offer in this regard, where significant reductions of the peak infection rate and the total number of infected people are observed even when applied late into the epidemic. However, the result also suggests that early implementation is critical in slowing down the epidemic.