Research

COVID-19 Research

Title :

Modelling and forecasting of COVID-19 pandemic

Area of research :

COVID-19 Research, Life Sciences & Biotechnology, Mathematical Sciences

Focus area :

Forecast for COVID-19

Principal Investigator :

Prof Mahendra Kumar Verma, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur

Timeline Start Year :

2020

Contact info :

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Executive Summary :

This project aims to study the suitable epidemic models for COVID-19 and adopt them for Indian conditions, and to simulate COVID-19 spread using Monte Carlo simulation with realistic conditions.

Outcome/Output:

The model predicts daily cases for India’s COVID-19 on https://covid19-forecast.org. Using SIR model, they have predicted the scenarios of possible third wave using the epidemic parameters of the second wave assuming that India is fully unlocked on 15 July 2021.

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