Affiliations 

  • 1 Department of General Studies Federal College of Agricultural Produce Technology Kano Nigeria
  • 2 Institute of Strategic Industrial Decision Modelling (ISIDM), School of Quantitative Sciences Universiti Utara Malaysia Sintok 06010 Kedah Malaysia
  • 3 Institute for the Future of Knowledge University of Johannesburg PO Box 524 Auckland Park 2006 South Africa
  • 4 Department of Mathematics National Institute of Technology Puducherry Karaikal 609609 India
  • 5 Faculty of Informatics and Computing Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin Kuala Terengganu Malaysia
Math Methods Appl Sci, 2022 Oct 04.
PMID: 36714679 DOI: 10.1002/mma.8772

Abstract

Since December 2019, the whole world has been facing the big challenge of Covid-19 or 2019-nCoV. Some nations have controlled or are controlling the spread of this virus strongly, but some countries are in big trouble because of their poor control strategies. Nowadays, mathematical models are very effective tools to simulate outbreaks of this virus. In this research, we analyze a fractional-order model of Covid-19 in terms of the Caputo fractional derivative. First, we generalize an integer-order model to a fractional sense, and then, we check the stability of equilibrium points. To check the dynamics of Covid-19, we plot several graphs on the time scale of daily and monthly cases. The main goal of this content is to show the effectiveness of fractional-order models as compared to integer-order dynamics.

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