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Int J Epidemiol Res. 2021;8(4): 140-145.
doi: 10.34172/ijer.2021.26
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Original Article

Modeling the Dynamics and Forecasting the fourth Peak of COVID-19 in Iran Using PSO Algorithm

Ebrahim Sahafizadeh 1* ORCID logo, Mohammad Ali Khajeian 1 ORCID logo

1 Department of Computer Engineering, Persian Gulf University, Bushehr 75169, Iran
*Corresponding Author: *Corresponding Author: Ebrahim Sahafizadeh, Department of Computer Engineering, Persian Gulf University, Bushehr 75169, Iran Email: , Email: sahafizadeh@pgu.ac.ir

Abstract

Background and aims: Iran had passed the third peak of COVID-19 pandemic, and was probably witnessing the fourth peak at the time of this study. This study aimed to model the spread of COVID-19 in Iran in order to predict the short-term future trend of COVID-19 from April 23, 2021 to May 7, 2021.

Methods: In this study, a modified SEIR epidemic spread model was proposed and the data on the number of cases reported by Iranian government from February 20, 2020 to April 23, 2021 were used to fit the proposed model to the reported data using particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm. Then the short-term future trend of COVID-19 cases were predicted by using the estimated parameters.

Results: The results indicated that the effective reproduction number increased in Nowruz (i.e., Persian New Year, 1400) and it was estimated to be 1.28 in the given period. According to the results from the short-term prediction of COVID-19 cases, the number of active confirmed cases in the fourth peak was estimated to be 516411 cases on May 2, 2021.

Conclusion: Following the results from our short-term prediction, implementing strict social distancing policies was found absolutely necessary for relieving the Iran’s health care system of the tremendous burden of COVID-19.

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Submitted: 24 Apr 2021
Accepted: 20 Jul 2021
ePublished: 29 Nov 2021
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