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An empirical model on the dynamics of Covid-19 spread in human population

Populations and Evolution 2020-08-17 v1 Physics and Society

Abstract

We propose a mathematical model to analyze the time evolution of the total number of infected population with Covid-19 disease at a region in the ongoing pandemic. Using the available data of Covid-19 infected population on various countries we formulate a model which can successfully track the time evolution from early days to the saturation period in a given wave of this infectious disease. It involves a set of effective parameters which can be extracted from the available data. Using those parameters the future trajectories of the disease spread can also be projected. A set of differential equations is also proposed whose solutions are these time evolution trajectories. Using such a formalism we project the future time evolution trajectories of infection spread for a number of countries where the Covid-19 infection is still rapidly rising.

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@article{arxiv.2008.06346,
  title  = {An empirical model on the dynamics of Covid-19 spread in human population},
  author = {Nilmani Mathur and Gargi Shaw},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.06346},
  year   = {2020}
}

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47 pages, 19 figures and 2 tables