Modeling and prediction of the third wave of COVID-19 spread in India

Abstract

Abstract In this work, we proposed a simple SEIHR compartmental model to study and analyse the third wave of COVID-19 in India. In addition to the other features of the disease, we also consider the reinfection of recovered individuals in the model. For the purpose of parameter estimation we separate the infective and deaths classes and plot them against the cumulative counts of infective and deaths from data, respectively. The estimated parameters from these two are used for prediction and further numerical simulations.We note that the infective will keep on growing and only slow down after around three months. We have studied impact of various parameters on our model and observe that the parameters associated with mask usage, screening and the care giving toCOVID-19 patients have significant impact on the prevalence and time taken to slow down the infection.We conclude that better use of mask, effective screening and timely care to infective will reduce infective and can help in disease control. Our numerical simulations can explicitly provide a short term prediction for such time line. Also we note that providing better care facilities will help reducing peak as well as the disease burden of predicted infected cases.