An Intelligent Prediction Model of COVID-19 in
India using Hybrid Epidemic Model
Manoj Kumar
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Delhi Technological University
Delhi, India
mkumarg@dce.ac.in
Jatin Bareja
Manufacturing process and automation engineering
Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology
Delhi, India
jatinb.mp@nsit.net.in
Manjot Singh
Manufacturing process and automation engineering
Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology
Delhi, India
manjots.mp@nsit.net.in
Rupanshu Sharma
Manufacturing process and automation engineering
Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology
Delhi, India
rupanshus.mp@nsit.net.in
Abstract—This article presents the current situation of COVID
19 spread in India and how it is impacted by various measures
taken by the administration. Data source is taken (till 15th
June 2020) from World Health Organization (WHO) to study
various trends and pattern. Hybrid epidemic susceptible-infected
recovered model is used to make predictions at every stage of
coronavirus. The basic reproduction number R0, is constructed
using a logistic function. An improved or hybrid epidemic model
is build based on various other factors to build a logistic infection
rate to analyse the patterns and trend in the data. Secondly,
ICU beds and ventilators available per 100,000 inhabitants
is also taken in account for critical. Also, the timeline for
changing the stage of coronavirus is used from various reliable
resources. Moreover, in comparison with the traditional SIR
models, accuracy in the predictions has significantly increased
with the R
2
value of 96.8 percent for the future days in India.
Index Terms—Coronavirus (COVID-19) prediction, epidemi-
ological models, hybrid epidemic model, least square fitting,
logistic R0
I. I NTRODUCTION
A newly identified coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, which has
caused a worldwide pandemic of respiratory illness, also
known as COVID-19. Currently, researchers are looking into
the virus and has figured out that the virus spreads through
the drops that is released into the air through infected person.
According to the recent data (18th July 2020) by John Hopkins
University [1], currently there are around 13 million people
who got infected by the Corona Virus all around the world.
India is currently second most populated country in the
world with one of the highest GDP and growing very rapidly
in terms of economy [10]. Therefore, this study focus on
analyzing the results which is based on different steps taken
by the Indian government during the epidemic. First case of
coronavirus in India was reported on January 30, 2020 and the
cases are rapidly increasing since then. In response, since 22nd
March there has been a lockdown in the whole country and
every activity is happening with the permission of administra-
tion unit of India and all the international travels have been
either banned or monitored closely. With the development of
the pandemic in India, it becomes important to understand
the current situation and its impact through statistical analysis
methods and prepare for ahead which should be helpful for
the Indian government and medical practitioners. Whenever
there is outbreak of such type of diseases having large scale
implications, people try to build various epidemic models and
try to understand and predict the trend and future implications
to take the appropriate control measures. Most frequently used
models for such cases are SI (susceptible – infected), SIR
(susceptible – infected – recovered), and SEIR (susceptible
– exposed – infected – recovered) models [11],[2] . In these
models stages such as susceptible, exposed, infected, recov-
ered are interconnected with each other through differential
equations and due to their capabilities of analyzing trend and
development in data, they are used to make future predictions
for diseases like COVID 19 [3] , [22]. However, according
to these models, everyone who tested positive for coronavirus
would have the same rate of infection. From the results of
these model, a mere overview of the trend has been obtained
and, thus, it have certain limitations. The accuracy of the data
reported plays a major role in analyzing trends of the disease
but data alone is not enough, the way administration handles
the situation must be consider in the model for results to be
accurate.
Agrawal [21], in their study, they used a particular rate
function which was not linear in nature. An epidemic model
(SIR) with treatment function and rate of infection was de-
scribed by [9]. In their study they focused on stability and
set the dynamics of the model accordingly to build a basic
reproduction number R0. It was represented that the model
they used own a reverse bifurcation. It was seen that they used
geometry to understand the equilibrium with global asymp-
totic stability. Adebimpe [1] portrayed, equilibrium that is
disease free is locally asymptotically stable if their production
number R is less than one and equilibrium that is endemic
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