Multi‐chain Fudan‐CCDC model for COVID‐19 ‐‐ a revisit to Singapore’s case

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Abstract

COVID‐19 has been impacting on the whole world critically and constantly since late December 2019. Rapidly increasing infections has raised intense worldwide attention. How to model the evolution of COVID‐19 effectively and efficiently is of great significance for prevention and control.

Methods

We propose the multi‐chain Fudan‐CCDC model based on the original single‐chain model in [Shao et al . 2020] to describe the evolution of COVID‐19 in Singapore. Multi‐chains can be considered as the superposition of several single chains with different characteristics. We identify the parameters of models by minimizing the penalty function.

Results

The numerical simulation results exhibit the multi‐chain model performs well on data fitting. Though unsteady the increments are, they could still fall within the range of ±30% fluctuation from simulation results.

Conclusion

The multi‐chain Fudan‐CCDC model provides an effective way to early detect the appearance of imported infectors and super spreaders and forecast a second outbreak. It can also explain the data from those countries where the single‐chain model shows deviation from the data.

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