  The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is being responded with various methods,
applying vaccines, experimental treatment options, total lockdowns or partial
curfews. Weekend curfews is one of the methods to reduce the amount of infected
persons and this method is practically applied in some countries such as
Turkey. In this study, the effect of weekend curfews on reducing the spread of
a contagious disease, such as COVID-19, is modeled using a Monte Carlo
algorithm with a hybrid lattice model. In the simulation setup, a fictional
country with three towns and 26,610 citizens were used as a model. Results
indicate that applying a weekend curfew reduces the active cases significantly
and is one of the efficient ways to fight the epidemic. The results also show
that applying personal precautions such as social distancing is important for
reducing the number of cases and deaths.
