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Review
. 2021 Oct 29;13(11):2185.
doi: 10.3390/v13112185.

A Review of COVID-19 Modelling Strategies in Three Countries to Develop a Research Framework for Regional Areas

Azizur Rahman  1   2 , Md Abdul Kuddus  1   3   4 , Ryan H L Ip  1 , Michael Bewong  1
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A Review of COVID-19 Modelling Strategies in Three Countries to Develop a Research Framework for Regional Areas

Azizur Rahman et al. Viruses. .

Abstract

At the end of December 2019, an outbreak of COVID-19 occurred in Wuhan city, China. Modelling plays a crucial role in developing a strategy to prevent a disease outbreak from spreading around the globe. Models have contributed to the perspicacity of epidemiological variations between and within nations and the planning of desired control strategies. In this paper, a literature review was conducted to summarise knowledge about COVID-19 disease modelling in three countries-China, the UK and Australia-to develop a robust research framework for the regional areas that are urban and rural health districts of New South Wales, Australia. In different aspects of modelling, summarising disease and intervention strategies can help policymakers control the outbreak of COVID-19 and may motivate modelling disease-related research at a finer level of regional geospatial scales in the future.

Keywords: COVID-19; NSW; different settings; intervention strategies; models.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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Extended SEIR model structure: The population is divided into the following six classes: susceptible, exposed (and not yet symptomatic), infectious (symptomatic), i.e., mild (mild or moderate symptom) and critical (severe symptoms), death and recovered (i.e., isolation, recovered, or otherwise non-infectious).
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