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A Time Delay Dynamical Model for Outbreak of 2019-nCoV and the Parameter Identification

Populations and Evolution 2020-02-14 v3 Dynamical Systems Physics and Society

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a novel dynamical system with time delay to describe the outbreak of 2019-nCoV in China. One typical feature of this epidemic is that it can spread in latent period, which is therefore described by the time delay process in the differential equations. The accumulated numbers of classified populations are employed as variables, which is consistent with the official data and facilitates the parameter identification. The numerical methods for the prediction of outbreak of 2019-nCoV and parameter identification are provided, and the numerical results show that the novel dynamic system can well predict the outbreak trend so far. Based on the numerical simulations, we suggest that the transmission of individuals should be greatly controlled with high isolation rate by the government.

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@article{arxiv.2002.00418,
  title  = {A Time Delay Dynamical Model for Outbreak of 2019-nCoV and the Parameter Identification},
  author = {Yu Chen and Jin Cheng and Yu Jiang and Keji Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.00418},
  year   = {2020}
}

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11 pages, 7 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2002.02590

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