Use of a Modified SIRD Model to Analyze COVID-19 Data

Since the starting of the year 2020, the whole world is facing a challenge due to an outbreak of an unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic owing to a novel coronavirus. Here, a modified susceptible-infected-recovered-dead model has been used to analyze the time series data of the pandemic for five countries. It is established that the present model is capable of simultaneously explaining the temporal evolution of active-infected, recovered, and dead population of all these five countries. The key parameters governing the temporal evolution of the spread of this pandemic are estimated and compared.