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ArticleBeni-Suef University journal of basic and applied sciences2021

Short-term forecasting of daily infections, fatalities and recoveries about COVID-19 in Algeria using statistical models.

Firdos Khan, Mohamed Lounis

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Article in Beni-Suef University journal of basic and applied sciences, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Firdos KhanSchool of Natural Sciences (SNS), National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), H-12 Sector, Islamabad, 44000 Pakistan.
Mohamed LounisDepartment of Agro-Veterinary Science, Faculty of Natural and Life Sciences, University of Ziane Achour, Road of Moudjbara, BP 3117, 17000 Djelfa, Algeria.ORCID 0000-0003-0421-2919

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Abstract

backgroundA viral disease due to a virus called SARS-Cov-2 spreads globally with a total of 34,627,141 infected people and 1,029,815 deaths. Algeria is an African country where 51,690, 1,741 and 36,282 are currently reported as infected, dead and recovered. A multivariate time series model has been used to model these variables and forecast their future scenarios for the next 20 days.

resultsThe results show that there will be a minimum of 63 and a maximum of 147 new infections in the next 20 days with their corresponding 95% confidence intervals of - 89 to 214 and 108-186, respectively. Deaths' forecast shows that there will be 8 and 12 minimum and maximum numbers of deaths in the upcoming 20 days with their 95% confidence intervals of 1-17 and 4-20, respectively. Minimum and maximum numbers of recovered cases will be 40 and 142 with their corresponding 95% confidence intervals of - 106 to 185 and 44-239, respectively. The total number of infections, fatalities and recoveries in the next 20 days will be 1850, 186 and 1680, respectively.

conclusionThe results of this study suggest that the new infections are higher in number than recover cases, and therefore, the number of infected people may increase in future. This study can provide valuable information for policy makers including health and education departments.

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AlgeriaCOVID-19ForecastingInfectionsRecoveriesTime series model

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