Abstract
In this article we propose a stochastic model to discuss the dynamics of novel corona virus disease. We formulate the model to study the long run behavior in varying population environment. For this purposes we divided the total human population into three epidemiological compartments: the susceptible, covid-19 infected, recovered and recovered along with one class of reservoir. The existence and uniqueness of the newly formulated model will be studied to show the well-possedness of the model. Moreover, we investigate the extinction analysis as well as the persistence analysis to find the disease extinction and disease persistence conditions. At the end we perform simulation to justify the investigation of analytical work with the help of graphical representations.
Keywords: COVID-19, Stochastic model, Existence and uniqueness analysis, Extinction as well as persistence, Simulation
Introduction
Corona viruses consist of a wide family of viruses This can cause human diseases, ranging from the popular Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) colds. In the previous two decade, two epidemics of corona virus have been reported. The one called SARS caused a large-scale epidemic devastation in China and targeting two dozen countries with reported 8000 cases along with 800 deaths. The other epidemic was Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS), which initially reported in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and consequently 2,500 number of individuals infected with 800 deaths [1], [2], [3], [4].
In December 2019, a serious outbreak of respiratory disease started in Wuhan city, China [5], [4]. The causative agent is the novel corona virus that was detected in early January and isolated from one single patient. The pandemic of the novel corona virus infected approximately 21,101,574 confirmed cases, including 758,025 deaths till 14 August, 2020. The World Health Organization reveal it as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. This new virus appears to be extremely infectious and has spread rapidly across the globe making it a global pandemic. The potential spreading of these disease become pandemic worldwide and therefore seems to be a very serious public health risk. The COVID-19 infection normal symptoms including fever, cough, breathing, fatigue and difficulties like (MERS-CoV) and (SARS-CoV) infection.
The literature reveals that the novel corona virus disease (COVID-2019) has been identified as a global issue and therefore got the attention of many researches. Many mathematician as well as biologists performed experiments to forecast the future possible progression via various mathematical models [6]. A variety of mathematical studies for the dynamics of novel corona virus outbreak as well as other infectious diseases have already been carried out, see for detail [7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [12], [13], [14], [15]. While there is an onset of epidemic, human-to–human transmission occur resulting in the rise of cases of corona virus disease worldwide. Due to limited resources, the most important thing for health care providers becomes the forecasting about the disease. It could be also noted to the best of our knowledged from the resent literature that most of the deterministic modeling approach were used for the dynamics of novel corona virus while modeling the transmission dynamics of infectious disease stochastic differential equations model is more appropriate, for example see [16], [17], [18], [19], [20], [21], [22], [23], [24], [25], [26], [27], [28]. Similarly according to the characteristic of the novel corona virus disease the stochastic modeling approach is more suitable then deterministic one.
In this study, we propose and analyze a stochastic epidemic compartmental model for covid-19 according to the characteristics of novel corona virus disease. It could be noted form the spreading of the novel corona virus disease that the ratio of transmission is different from place to place and therefore the random fluctuation of the environment is taken to be in the transmission rate and so distributed. We formulated the model with the fact that adding the noise term in the transmission rate. Once formulate the model we discuss the existence analysis and uniqueness by using the stochastic Lyapnov function theory to investigate the well possedness of the proposed problem. We also find the condition for the extinction and persistence by discussing the extinction and persistence analysis. At the end we use the well known purely numerical technique of stochastic Euler Maruyama technique to perform the numerical simulation and show the feasibility of the analytical work graphically.
Model formulation
We formulate a stochastic model for the dynamics of novel corona virus disease in this section. Without the direct representation of the model, we put some assumptions.
a. All variables, constants as well as parameters of the model are non-negative.
b. The total human population is represented by and consequently divided into three epidemiological groups of susceptible, infected and recovered population.
c. It could be noted that the corona pandemic rises from the human to human contact worldwide and the stochastic behaviors of population groups of the proposed problem are supposed to be driven by the same source or randomness . This can be seen as the model proposes that variations in population groups are linked to the same source of information represented by the Brownian motion filtration , where is the -algebra generated by leads to the fact that any change in one population group has directly an impact on the other groups. Therefore the random fluctuation of the environment are taken to be in the transmission rate, such that and . Here symbolize the standard Brownian motion, while and are white noise intensities. Clearly the Brownian motion obey the property of and .
Thus keeping in view (2019-nCoV) characteristics along with the above assumptions, we explore the problem in term of the nonlinear model:
| (1) |
where the new born rate is , while and are assumed to be the two transmission routs i.e., from infected individuals and reservoir. We also denote the natural death by d and the disease death by . Moreover, it is assumed that is the recovery of the infected population. Finally the rate of virus contributing to the seafood market is taken to be , while is the removal proportion of the virus.
Clearly the proposed model (1) reduces to its associated deterministic form, if the intensities of white noise . In addition the associated deterministic model having two type of equilibria: disease free and endemic equilibrium respectively denoted by and , where
| (2) |
where is the threshold parameter or also known the basic reproductive number of the associated deterministic model of system (1). To find this quantity, let , than
| (3) |
where
| (4) |
Calculating the Jacobian of the above matrices and around the disease free state , we may arrives at
| (5) |
The threshold quantity is the spectral radius of the matrix, , and so consequently having the following expression is given by
| (6) |
Existence and uniqueness analysis
The current section is dedicated to find the existence analysis and uniqueness analysis of the stochastic model (1).
The Itô formula presented in the next lemma will be very useful in getting our results. It is a special case of the Multidimensional Itô formula that can be found in many books on stochastic calculus e.g. [29].
Lemma 1
Let and denote two n-dimensional square-integrable adapted processes. We consider the process , where for is driven by the stochastic differential equation
Given a function F twice continuously differentiable from to , then we have
where
since and .
We have the following results to discuss the properties of existence and uniqueness.
Theorem 2
For every initial sizes in , the model (1) solution i.e., is unique and remains in almost surely (a.s).
Proof
We first show existence and uniqueness of local positive solution then we prove that the local solution is global. Our proof is based on results from [30], [31], [32]. In the following, we adopt the same method used in Lei et al., [33] and more recently in [34]. So in view of the properties of locally Lipschitz continuity for the proposed model (1) holds, therefore, we assume that if is the explosion time then the solution for t in along with non-negative initial population sizes in is unique local. Further to perform that the solution is global, we need to investigate the axioms of a.s. For this we assume that a positive constant i.e., be sufficiently large such that . The stopping time for each integer is define to be
(7) Let us assume that is the null set, then setting . It could be noted that the increasing of depends on the value of k and consequently increasing if the value of k is increasing i.e., rises with k approaches . The substitution of as along with the investigation of a.s leads to non-negative t a.s. It clearly shows that only we need to prove that . Thus we assume that there are two constants such that and , such that
(8) So is an integer that
(9) Let us assume that , where and then for any , we may arrives to the following assertions
(10) Using some algebraic manipulation the above Eq. (10) ultimately takes the following form
(11) Solving Eq. (11), we obtain the following assertion is given by
(12) Similarly the temporal differentiation of takes the following form
(13) The use Eq. (12) in Eq. (13) with little re-arrangement gives the solution is represented by
(14) Thus the combination of Eq. (12) and Eq. (14) lead to the following assertion is symbolized by
(15) Moreover, let , i.e., define by
(16) It could be noted from the above Eq. (16) that H is non-negative. Thus for and , we apply the ito formula which lead to the following assertion
(17) where
(18) Simplifying and the use of algebraic manipulation gives the following
(19) which implies that
(20) Let then the above equation i.e., Eq. (20) can be re-written as
(21) It is very much clear that , so Eq. (21) may be expressed in the following form
(22) Furthermore it could be noted from the fact that , therefore making use of the Eq. (15) in Eq. (23) leads to the assertion is give by
(23) Hence
(24) Set for . As a result, Eq. (8) reads . So for all , there is at least one , exists, which will be equal to or k. So H is not less then or . Then
(25) Using Eq. (8) and Eq. (24), we write
(26) where the notion is used for the indicator function of . Let then it contradict that , which ultimately implies that a.s. □
Remark 1
It could be noted from the existence analysis that for any initial population sizes , the unique global solution exists almost surly (a.s) for the proposed problem (1), therefore
(27) and
(28) Solving Eq. (27), (28) with some manipulation we get the following assertions
(29) Hence the feasible region for the proposed problem (1) is given by the following bounded set
(30) is invariant positively subjected to the proposed system (1).
Theorem 3
The solutions of the proposed system (1) are positive for ,
a.s for .
Proof
We suppose that the solutions of stochastic corona model (1) exists in the interval . To solve the first and second equations of model (1), as in [35] we consider the process defined by the SDE
(31) where and are two stochastic processes satisfying the required conditions to insure a solution of (31) as follows
(32) Then the variation of constants method will be utilized to assume that the solution of the first equation of our model can be written as , with , and . Then can be obtained using the below integration by parts for stochastic processes
Here is calculated using Ito formula applied to . The solution of first equation of model (1) is then given by
The second equation of stochastic corona model (1) can be also obtained using the same methodology as above but with , with , and . The solution of second equation of model (1) is then given by
where . Similarly it is not tedious to show that and . Hence the solutions of the model (1) are positive. □
Extinction and persistence analysis
The current section is devoted to discuss the extinction as well as persistence analysis. We find the condition that how the disease extinct and persist in a population. Before we are going in the detail analysis, we introduce some preliminaries results and notation. Let us assume that the mean value of is given by
| (33) |
and therefore the disease persist if and whenever t approaches are positive. Moreover, we assume that the parameter is defined to be the basic reproductive parameter for the corona system (1) is as
| (34) |
Moreover, the proposed problem (1) persistent if it satisfy the following conditions
| (35) |
and
| (36) |
Extinction analysis
To discuss the analysis of extinction and looking for the conditions that how the disease will be extinct from the community, we have the following theorems.
Theorem 4
Since is the solution of system (1) and is the initial sizes of the populations, then
(37) or consequently we can write that , and exponentially a.s., i.e., the infection of novel corona virus disease will dies surly, if the following conditions are satisfied
(38) Moreover,
(39)
Proof
We follow the same methodology as reported in Lei et al., [33], therefore integrating both sides of system (1), we get the following system of equations
(40) Using the formula is given in Eq. (33) with little re-arrangement, the above Eq. (40) looks like
Adding first and second equation of the above system and making use of , we obtain
(41) Similarly the addition of first, second and third equation of the above system gives the following expression
(42) where . Clearly if t approaches to , then and tend to zero. Moreover the application of It formula to the 2nd equation of system (1) leads to the following equation
(43) Integrating both side of the above Eq. (43) with limit from 0 to t and then dividing the resultant expression by t we get the following assertion
(44) It is clear from Eq. (33) that , therefore the above Eq. (44) may take the following form
(45) Using the notion and for the local continuous martingale in Eq. (45), then the above inequality looks like
(46) Plugging Eq. (41), (42) in the above Eq. (46) lead to the assertion is given by
which implies that
(47) where
(48) Following the strong law of large number for the local continues martingales that and as t approaches a.s. Moreover, Eq. (47) implies that
(49) If and , then we may write the above inequality in the following form
(50) Alternatively Eq. (50) shows that as , which implies that as . Also we know that
(51) It could be noted from and the above Eq. (51) that and as . Using all these data i.e., and , Eq. (41) implies that a.s as t approaches . Thus it could be concluded that the extinction of the disease depend on the choice of parameters as well as , and if these conditions holds the novel corona virus disease will extinct from the community. □
Persistence analysis
We discuss the analysis of persistence in this subsection. We find that how the novel corona virus disease will persist in the community and therefore for analysis of persistence the following theorems are described.
Theorem 5
For any initial sizes , the solution of system (1) satisfying the property is given by
(52) and
(53) In Eq. (52), (53) , the value of and are defined by
(54) if the following conditions are satisfied
(55)
Proof
By following the work of Lei et al., [33], it could be noted from Eq. (47) that
(56) Consequently the above inequality can be written as
(57) Taking the supremum as well as of both side, we get the following assertion is given by
(58) On the other hand the substitution of Eq. (15), (41), (42) in Eq. (44), leads to the expression is give by
(59) We assume that , then the above inequality may take the following form
(60) Using some algebraic manipulation and the parameter as stated in Eq. (34) we arrive the following
(61) Solving the above inequality for and then taking with inferior of both side we get
(62) Combining Eq. (58), (62) we get
(63) Moreover from the third equation of system (40) one may write
(64) which implies that
(65) Similarly it can be written as
(66) Thus from Eq. (66), (67) we may write
(67) □
Numerical simulation
The section is devoted to perform the simulation analysis of the novel corona virus model (1). The purposes of numerical simulation is to verify the analytical findings.
We first give a short overview on simulating stochastic differential equations-SDEs 1 since our model system in (1) is driven by SDEs. Consider a one dimensional stochastic process driven by the following SDE
| (68) |
The aim is to reproduce the evolution of over a continuous time period. It is possible to generate a sample of at a given time t utilizing the SDE solution in case (68) is solved. Nonetheless, in general this can be done by simulating the SDE. As for deterministic differential equations, a discretization of the SDE at a finite number of points is needed. For seek of simplification, we use the denotations instead of and instead of , then a discretization of (68) can be given by
with N is the number of time steps and is the time step. Using Itô-Taylor expansion, we can get several discretization methods such as Euler–Maruyama, Milstein, or Runge–Kutta. Despite that Milstein and Runge–Kutta have higher order in discretization compared to Euler–Maruyama scheme, they could be more expensive on computation since first and second derivatives of the volatility term ”b” are required. We use then the well known numerical scheme of stochastic Euler–Maruyama technique to perform the investigation of our analytical results graphically. To obtain a discretized trajectory of form the SDE (68) using Euler–Maruyama scheme
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1.
simulate as normally distributed random variable
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2.set and evaluate using
(69)
for . Notice that . We will omit, from now on, the use of the symbol ~ for discretized version of a given SDE.
The application of stochastic Euler Maruyama technique to the model (1) gives the system
| (70) |
Consequently the above system (70) can be re-written as
| (71) |
Moreover we code the above algorithm via Matlab software along with the biological feasible value of parameters and initial sizes of populations to show the stochastic process influence with the help of graphs. We use two different set of parameters values i.e., one for the extinction analysis and one for the persistence analysis to verify the analytical findings. Let be the set of parameter whose values are assumed to perform the verification of extinction analysis. The choice of parameters value in the case of extinction analysis are as: , , , while the value for the analysis of persistence are assumed as: , , . After executing with all these data we obtain the results as given in Fig. 1 . The different trajectories of Fig. 1a demonstrate the susceptible dynamics, covid-19 infected, recovered and reservoir, which shows the extinction of the novel corona virus disease as shown in Theorem 4.1. This clearly splash that the susceptible population exist always while the remaining will vanishes after some time. Similarly the analysis of persistent are shown in Fig. 1b, which verify the analytical result as discussed in Theorem 4.2. In this case the solution trajectories of the various compartment of susceptible, infected, recovered and reservoir show that the disease persist as shown in Fig. 1b. Moreover, we also observe the influence of noise on the disease transmission that the increasing of noise intensity is directly proportional to the disease transmission while inversely proportional to the persistence of the disease.
Fig. 1.
The dynamics of the novel corona virus model (1) against the relative parameters as stated above and initial sizes of compartmental populations .
Conclusion
We proposed a stochastic model for the novel corona virus disease, because spreading of the covid-19 is not deterministic and having stochastic effect. We formulated the model for covid-19 by varying the transmission co-efficient. Moreover we discussed the existence analysis along with uniqueness for the global solution and showed that the model is well-posed. We then also showed the extinction of the problem as well as persistence and obtained conditions in term of parameters and intensity of white noise. To support the theoretical findings, we used a numerical method of stochastic Euler Maruyama technique and presented numerical simulation. It could be noted from the simulation of the proposed model that there is a great influence of the white noise intensity on the transmission of the novel corona virus disease. The extinction of the covid-19 infected population is directly proportional to the noise intensity, i.e., to increase the value of the noise intensity will exponentially decrease the infection. Beside from this one the persisting of the novel corona virus are proportional inversely to the intensity of white noise i.e., disease persisting decreases if we increase the intensity of white noise.
In a near future a more general model with different sources of randomness where each population group has a different Brownian motion could be investigated.
Declaration of Competing Interest
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
Acknowledgment
We would like to express our sincere appreciation to the United Arab Emirates University Research Office for the financial support of UPAR Grant No. 31S369. We also would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for providing constructive comments, which have resulted in enhancing the paper. The usual disclaimer applies however.
Footnotes
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