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. 2022 Sep 27;12:16105. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-20059-0

Correlated stochastic epidemic model for the dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 with vaccination

Tahir Khan 1, Roman Ullah 1, Basem Al Alwan 2, Youssef El-Khatib 3,, Gul Zaman 4
PMCID: PMC9514201  PMID: 36168022

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a mathematical model to describe the influence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus with correlated sources of randomness and with vaccination. The total human population is divided into three groups susceptible, infected, and recovered. Each population group of the model is assumed to be subject to various types of randomness. We develop the correlated stochastic model by considering correlated Brownian motions for the population groups. As the environmental reservoir plays a weighty role in the transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, our model encompasses a fourth stochastic differential equation representing the reservoir. Moreover, the vaccination of susceptible is also considered. Once the correlated stochastic model, the existence and uniqueness of a positive solution are discussed to show the problem’s feasibility. The SARS-CoV-2 extinction, as well as persistency, are also examined, and sufficient conditions resulted from our investigation. The theoretical results are supported through numerical/graphical findings.

Subject terms: Biological techniques, Mathematics and computing

Introduction

In Wuhan, China, a respiratory disease outbreak has been started in December 2019. Later, it was identified as a novel coronavirus (COVID-19), known as the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The initial spreading source of the novel disease was an animal. But the pandemic rises from human interaction. Total of 589 million infected individuals have been reported while around 6 and half million deaths occurred till August 13, 2022, around the world. Vaccination is an important weapon against controlling a disease. In the case of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, disease vaccination is very important and there are many vaccines that could be shown their effectiveness. World Health Organization (WHO) investigates that reliable vaccinations program will change the situation. But precautionary measures could be necessary for the time being as it is still doubtful that the vaccine of SARS-CoV-2 provides how many degrees of safeness.

Modeling the real-world problem is an emerging area in the field of science and technology. Mathematical models play a very significant role to explore the dynamics of disease and predicting for future. Also, effective control programs have been forecasted to suggest useful guidelines for health officials. On the basis of these guidelines, it could be easily implemented by taking serious steps to control the disease. Researchers studied epidemiological models to discuss the dynamic behavior of disease by suggesting control mechanism16. Covid-19 also called the SARS-CoV-2 virus and its vaccination is a challenging task, which attracts the attention of many researchers, (see715). The reported literature reveals that the mathematical models which have been analyzed are simple and used deterministic approaches. However, the SARS-CoV-2 virus transmission is influenced by different factors (social behavior, age, mobility, virus mutation, etc.,) that can affect the dynamics1622. So from the characteristic of the disease, it could be very interesting if the stochastic approach will be used. A stochastic model has been studied for the novel coronavirus by Khan et al.,23 very recently, where the random fluctuation is assumed in transmission rate only, while as reported above that due to many factors the SARS-CoV-2 virus is influenced. The main contribution of this paper is to suggest an alternative stochastic model for the SARS-CoV-2 virus, where each population group has its own randomness source, but they are all related by correlation factors. In addition, the correlated suggested model includes the vaccination impact. We formulate a stochastic mathematical model for capturing the realistic nature of the disease. For this, we will extend the work of Khan et al., by incorporating various random sources in which every individual class has various Brownian motions according to the disease characteristics. The vaccination of susceptible individuals is also assumed to investigate the efficiency of vaccination and its role in the minimization of the infection. First, the models will be formulated and then analyzed to discuss the detailed dynamics. We will discuss the existence as well as the uniqueness of the proposed problem to show the well-possed ness and feasibility of the problem. We then show that under what conditions the SARS-CoV-2 virus disease is extinct as well as persists. It is essential to discuss extinction and persistence when investigating virus spread. The aim of this analysis is to determine when the disease will end (extinct) and under which conditions will stay (persist). Finally, all analytical findings will be supported by using some graphical representation in the form of a large-scale numerical simulation by using the Euler-Maruyama scheme. It will be performed via coding the proposed problem with the help of MATLAB and we will show the analytical finding graphically.

Formulation of the model with fundamental analysis

Let us assume a filtered probability space (Ω,FT,(Ft)t[0,T],P) on which lives W:=(W(t))t[0,T] with W(t):=(Wi(t):such thati=1,,4), where W is a Brownian motion of 4th dimension. Moreover, the natural filtration (Ft)t[0,T]) is assumed generated by the Brownian motion W. For k=1,2,3,4, we consider the correlated 1-dimensional Brownian motions (Bk(t))t[0,T] given by

Bk(t):=i=14λki(t)Wi(t)whereλkiareconstantin[-1,1].

We classify the total human population into three human population groups and one class of reservoir. The three population groups are susceptible, SARS-CoV-2 virus infected and recovered, which are symbolized by s(t), i(t) and r(t) respectively, while the reservoir class is denoted by w(t). The quantity w is the environmental reservoir which is an important element in the study of our epidemic model. It represents the concentration of the coronavirus in the environmental reservoir and it includes rates of the infected individuals contributing the coronavirus to the environmental reservoir and the removal rate of the virus from the environment. All the population groups and the reservoir is distributed by different Brownian motions. The schematic diagram for distribution process of the various population groups is given in Fig. 1. Thus we suggest a correlated stochastic epidemic model by the following system:

ds(t)=Π-β1i(t)+β2w(t)+μ+vs(t)dt+η1s(t)dB1(t),di(t)=β1i(t)+β2w(t)s(t)-(σ+d1+μ)i(t)dt+η2i(t)dB2(t),dr(t)=σi(t)+vs(t)-μr(t)dt+η3r(t)dB3(t),dw(t)=αi(t)-ηw(t)dt+η4w(t)dB4(t). 1

Figure 1.

Figure 1

The graph represent the schematic diagram of the proposed model.

The above-proposed model is a generalization of standard epidemic deterministic models. It allows the different quantity of the model to vary stochastically, which mean that the variations are not only time-dependent but also subject to haphazard fluctuations. The random noise detected from real data is considered in the above stochastic model but neglected in deterministic models. In Eq. (1) the various parameters are characterized as: the newborn rate is symbolized with Π, and βi,i=1,2, are routes of disease transmission from the infected human as well as from the reservoir. Moreover, v is the vaccination of the susceptible population and μ is the natural death rate while death from the disease is described with d1. We also symbolize the recovery rate by σ and a rate contributed to the virus to the environment by α. The removing SARS-CoV virus rate is denoted by η. If λk1=1 for k=1,2,3,4, and λki=0 otherwise, then B1=B2=B3=B4 and the model is reduced to the stochastic model studied in Khan et al.,23. Also, it could be clearly noted that the above system (1) will reduce to the deterministic form, whenever η1=η2=η3=η4=0. It can be seen also an extension of1. In addition the disease-free and endemic equilibriums of the associated deterministic form of the model are respectively symbolized with E0=(s0,0,0,r0) and E=(s,i,r,w) with s0=Π/μ, r0=vΠ/dq1, where p1=μ+v. To move towards the endemic equilibrium, we will calculate the basic reproductive number first, which is defined to be the average number of secondary infectious produced an infective whenever reached to a totally non-infected population. We assume X=(i,w)T and p2=σ+μ+d1, then the deterministic version of the model (1) yields

dXdt|E0=-V+F,andF=β1s0β2s000,V=p20-αη. 2

The basic reproductive number is then the spectral radius of ρ(FV-1) and consequently looks like

R0=Πβ1p1p2+Παβ2ηp1p2. 3

We use this quantity, to find the components of the endemic equilibrium which may take the form

s=ηq2ηβ1+β2α,i=ηq1R0-1β1η+β2α,r=vs+σiμ,w=αηi. 4

Sensitivity analysis

In every disease the role of the threshold parameter (basic reproductive number) is very important and the disease spreads whenever the value of this quantity is more than one and the disease dies out if its value is less than unity. We will discuss the sensitivity of threshold parameter to find the relation between basic reproductive number and model parameter. We also calculate the sensitivity indexes that which parameters is how much sensitive to disease control and transmission. Generally the sensitivity index of a parameter say ϕ is denoted by Υϕ and define as ϕR0R0ϕ. By following this formula we calculate the sensitivity indices of model parameters as: Υβ1=0.9937106918, Υβ2=0.006289308180, Υα=0.006289308180, Υν=-0.8333333334 and Υσ=-0.6862610536, where the parameters value are taken to be Π=2, β1=0.079, β2=0.001, μ=0.16, ν=0.8, d1=0.00001, σ=0.35, α=0.1 and η=0.2. The biological interpretation of these analyses investigate that the epidemic parameters β1, β2 and α have a positive influence on the threshold quantity while there is a negative influence with the parameters ν and σ. This shows that decreasing in the value of β1, β2 and α, and increasing in the value of ν and σ will decrease the value of the basic reproductive number, which is significant in disease elimination. It could be also noted that β1 and ν got the highest sensitivity index and so are the most sensitive parameters to the disease transmission and control. We observed that increasing the value of β1 say by 10% would significantly increase the value of R0 by 9.9% as depicted in Fig. 2, while increasing the value of ν say by 10% decreasing the value of R0 by 8.3% as shown in Fig. 5. Similarly, β2 and α collectively effect R0 by 0.1257861636 whenever these parameters are increased or decreased by 10% as depicted by Figs. 3 and 4. The relation between σ and R0 is also an inverse as increased σ by 10% would decrease the threshold quantity by 6.86% is given in Fig. 5.

Figure 2.

Figure 2

The picture visualizes the variation of the reproductive number against β1 and β2.

Figure 5.

Figure 5

The graph visualizes the variation of the basic reproductive number against σ and ν.

Figure 3.

Figure 3

The graph visualizes the variation of the basic reproductive number against β1 and α.

Figure 4.

Figure 4

The graph visualizes the variation of the basic reproductive number against β2 and α.

Existence and uniqueness analysis

In this portion of the manuscript the existence of the solution and uniqueness with the positivity of Eq. (1) will be discussed.

It is worth mentioning that the Itô formula is one of the most useful formulas in stochastic calculus. It is utilized, among others, to solve stochastic differential equations. Here, we describe a Multidimensional Itô formula for getting our results by following the book of stochastic calculus24.

Lemma 2.1

Let a=(α1,,αn) and b=(β1,,βn) represent the adapted processes with square-integrable n-dimensional. We consider X=(X1,,Xn), where Xk is driven by the stochastic differential equation and k{1,,n}, thus

dXk(t)=ak(t)dt+bk(t)dB(t),Xk(0)R.

Let F is a given twice continuously differentiable function f:RnR, then we have

dF(X(t))=k=1nFxk(X(t))dXk(t)+k,l=1n122Fxkxl(X(t))dXk(t),Xl(t),

where dXk(t),Xl(t)=bk(t)bl(t)dt, dt=dB(t),B(t), and dB(t),t=dt,t=dt,B(t)=0.

We use the Lyapunov theory and the virtue of the Itô formula to prove that the solution of Eq. (1) exists globally and is positive. Define

D=(s,i,r,w)R+4:sandr>0,i,w0,s+i+r+w1. 5

The result that discusses the existing analysis of the problem is given by the following theorem.

Theorem 2.2

Let (s(0), i(0), r(0), w(0)) be the initial classes and assumed to be in R+4, then the solution (s(t), i(t), r(t), w(t)) of the model (1) is unique as well as remains in R+4 almost surely (a.s) i.e.,

p(s,i,r,w)D,t0=1.

Proof

We use the procedure as adopted in25 and so in the light of this the local Lipschitz continuity property holds for system (1), therefore the solution symbolized by (sirw) of the proposed problem in [0,τe) subject to initial conditions in R+4 is unique and local for the explosion time τe. Moreover, we investigate that τe= a.s as to show the solution globalization. It is assumed that κ00 is sufficiently large and 1κ0<N(0)<κ0, where N(0)=(s(0),a(0),c(0),r(0)). We define the stopping time for every κκ0 as:

τk=inft[0,τe):min(s(t),i(t),r(t),w(t))1kormax(s(t),i(t),r(t),w(t)). 6

Further, let ϕ is empty set and infϕ=. Since τk depend on k and whenever k increasing τk also increasing as k increases without bound i.e., tend to . Making use of lim=τ if t with taking τ= a.s gives that (s(t),i(t),r(t),w(t))R+4, t0 a.s. We now only need to show that τe=. For this, we use the assumption that for any two constants, T>0 and ε(0,1), we have

P{τT}>ε. 7

So k1k0 is an integer that

P{τkT}ε,for everykk1. 8

Let H is twice continuously differentiable function i.e., HC2 and H:R+4R+ by

H(s,i,r,w)=s-1-log(s)+i-1-log(i)+r-1-log(r)+w-1-log(w). 9

Clearly, H0, so for 0T and k0k, and by the application of the Itô formula leads to the assertion

dH=LHdt+(s-1)η1dB1+(i-1)η2dB2+(r-1)η3dB3+(w-1)η4dB4. 10

In Eq. (10), LH is defined as

LH=(1-1/s)(Π-β1si-β2sw-(μ+v)s)+12η12+(1-1/i)(β1si+β2sw-(μ+d1+σ)i)+12η22+(1-1/r)(vs+σi-μr)+12η32+(1-1/w)×(αi-ηw)+12η42. 11

Simplifying and re-writing the above equation may lead to the following inequality

LHΠ+(β1+α)i+β2w+vs+3μ+v+d1+σ+η. 12

It could be noted from the fact that s+i+r+w1, so the last inequality gives

LHΠ+β1+β2+α+2v+3μ+d1+σ+η:=K. 13

Plugging Eq. (13) in Eq. (10) we may arrive

dHKdt+(s-1)η1dB1+(i-1)η2dB2+(r-1)η3dB3+(w-1)η4dB4.

The integration of both sides reveals that

0τkTdH0τkkTKdt+0τkT(s-1)η1dB1+0τkT(i-1)η2dB2+0τkT(r-1)η3dB3+0τkT(w-1)η4dB4. 14

The expectation of both sides provides

E[H(s(τkT),i(τkT),r(τkT),w(τkT))]H(s(0),i(0),r(0),w(0))+E[0τkTKdt],

which implies that

E[H(s(τkT),i(τkT),r(τkT),w(τkT))]H(s(0),i(0),r(0),w(0))+TK. 15

Setting a notion of Ωk=Tτk for all kk1. The use of Eq. (7) gives that P(Ωk)ϵ. Noted that there is at least one s(ω,τk) or i(ω,τk) or r(ω,τk) or w(ω,τk) equal 1/k or k for all ωΩk. Since 1k+logk-1 or -logk+k-1. Hence

(s(τk,ω),i(τk,ω),r(τk,ω),w(τk,ω))(1k-1+logk)(-logk-1+k). 16

So Eqs. (7) and (15) gives

H(N(0))+TKE[1Ωk(ω)H(s(τkT),i(τkT),r(τkT),w(τkT))],=E[1Ωk(ω)H(s(τk,T),i(τk,T),r(τk,T),w(τk,T))]E[1Ωk(ω)(logk-1+1k)(-logk-1+k)]=(logk-1+1k)(-logk-1+k)E[1Ωk(ω)],

implies that

H(N(0))+TKϵ(logk+1k-1)(-logk+k-1),

where 1Ωk(ω) is a function known indicator function for Ωk(ω). Let k we ultimately obtain >H(N(0))+KT=, which contradicts, therefore =τ a.s.

Remark 1

The uniqueness as well as the existence reveals that for any initial compartments (N(0))R+4, the unique solution with global axiom (s,i,r,w)R+4 almost surly (a.s) exists for the proposed problem under consideration as reported by Eq. (1). The previous result can be also proved by the next theorem.

Theorem 2.3

Let (sirw) be the solutions of the stochastic differential equations of our model as stated by Eq. (1). The solutions (sirw)

Proof

We follow26 to discuss the solutions of Eq. (1) which becomes

Xk(t)=ζk(t)Xk(0)+0t[αk(u)-j=1mθkj(u)γkj(u)λkj2]ζk-1(u)du+j=1m0tγkj(t)λkjζ-1(u)dWj(u). 17

where

ζk(t)=exp0tak(u)-12j=1mbkj2(u)du+j=1m0tbkj(u)dWj(u). 18

Here k=4, m=4, λkj=λkj, γkj=0 (for k,j=1,2,3,4) and

X1=s,α1=Π,a1=-β1i(t)-β2w(t)-(μ+v),b1j=η1λ1j,X2=i,α2=β2w(t)s(t),a2=β1s(t)-(σ+μ+d1),b2j=η2λ2j,X3=r,α3=vs(t)+σi(t),a3=-μ,b3j=η3λ3j,X4=w,α4=αi(t),a4=-η,b4j=η4λ4j.

The Eqs. (17) and (18) show clearly that the solution of our model (1) exists and it is unique and positive if we impose the positivity of the deterministic integral. This ends the proof.

Extinction and persistence

In this section, the extinction and persistence analysis of the stochastic model (1) are discussed. We derive the various conditions in the form of some expressions to show permanence and extinction. These expressions containing the model parameters and intensities of noises. Before the formal analysis we define that

g(t)=1t0tg(x)dx. 19

Now it could be described that the persistence of novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 is subjected to lim(infi(t)) and lim(infw(t)) whenever are positive as t increases without bound i.e., to . Moreover, the stochastic reproductive number of corona dynamical system represented by Eq. (1) is symbolized by R0S and define as R0S=R1S+R2S, where

R1S=Πβ1p1(p2+η222),R2S=Πβ2p1(p2+η222). 20

Similarly, if

limtinf0ti(x)dx>0,a.s., 21

and

limtinf0tw(x)dx>0,a.s, 22

holds, the epidemic problem represented by Eq. (1) states that the disease will persist. Thus for the extinction analysis of the proposed problem we state the following subsequent result.

Theorem 2.4

The SARS-CoV-2 virus will die out exponentially whenever the stochastic reproductive number parameter (R0S) is less then unity i.e.,

limtsuplogi(t)t(p1+12ξ22)(R0S-1)<0a.s.

Also

limts(t)=Πp1,limtr(t)=vΠdp1,limtw(t)=limti(t)=0,a.s. 23

Proof

To prove the result, we integrate the system (1) on both sides which lead to

0tds(x)=Πt-0t(β1i(x)+β2w(x)+p1)s(x)dx+0tη1s(x)dB1(x),0tdi(x)=0t(β1s(x)+β2w(x)-σ-μ-μ1)i(x)dx+0tη2i(x)dB2(x),0tdr(x)=0t(vs(x)+σi(x)-μr(x))dx+0tη3r(x)dB3(x),0tdw(x)=0t(αi(x)-ηw(x))dx+0tη4w(x)dB4(x), 24

implies that

s(t)-s(0)t=Π-β1i(t)s(t)-β2w(t)s(t)-p1s(t)+η1t0ts(x)dB1(x),i(t)-i(0)t=β1i(t)s(t)+β2w(t)s(t)-p2i(t)+η2t0ti(x)dB2(x),r(t)-r(0)t=σi(t)+vs(t)-μr(t)+η3t0tr(x)dB3(x),w(t)-w(0)t=-ηw(t)+αi(t)+η4t0tw(x)dB4(x). 25

The addition of the first two equations of the above system i.e., s(t)-s(0)t+i(t)-i(0)t may be written as

s(t)-s(0)t+i(t)-i(0)t=Π-p1s(t)-p2i(t)+η1t0tsdB1(x)+η2t0ti(x)dB2(x). 26

For the sake of simplicity, the notion Φ(t) will be used in Eq. (26) with some basic algebra we arrive at

s(t)=Πp1-p2p1i(t)+Φ(t), 27

where

Φ(t)=-1p1[i(t)-i(0)t+s(t)-s(0)t]+η1t0ts(x)dB1(x)+η2t0ti(x)dB2(x).

It could be noted from the last result that the limiting value of Φ(t) is zero whenever t approaches i.e.,

limtΦ(t)=0a.s. 28

The virtue of the Itô formula to the reported epidemic problem (1) gives

dlogi(t)=β1s(t)+β2s(t)w(t)i(t)-p2-η222+η2dB2(t). 29

The integration of dlogi(t) yields

1t[logi(t)]0t=β1s(t)+β2s(t)w(t)i(t)-p2-η222+η2B2(t)t. 30

It is very much clear from Eq. (5) that s+i+r+w1, thus we noted that s(t)w(t)i(t)s(t)w(t)s(t) therefore the above assertion leads to the inequality given by

1t[logi(t)]0t(β1+β2)s(t)-p2-η222+η2B2(t)t. 31

Using the value of s(t) with some algebraic manipulation and following the well-known strong law of large number27 i.e., limsupξ2B2t=0a.s as t we obtain

limtsuplogi(t)t(p2+η222)(R0S-1)<0a.s., 32

implies that whenever the condition R0S<1 holds, then limi(t)=0 and so limi(t)=0 a.s., as t. Moreover, the last equation of system (25) implies that

w(t)=1ηαi(t)+η4t0tw(x)dB4(x)-w(t)-w(0)t. 33

Since the limiting value of i(t) is zero then w(t)=0 whenever t, thus the first equation of the system (25) looks like

s(t)=1p1Π+η1t0ts(x)dB1(x)-s(t)-s(0)t, 34

gives that if t, lims(t)=Π/p1. We conclude that the novel disease extinct continuously depends on the value of R0S, and ultimately whenever R0S<1, it will extinct.

We have seen from the previous theorem that the virus will die out exponentially if R0S<1. The next theorem discusses the case when the stochastic reproductive number parameter R0S>1 is greater than one.

Theorem 2.5

If R0S>1 and (s0,i0,r0,w0) are any initial population sizes in D, then whenever t approaches , so system (1) holds the conditions given below

i2liminfi(t)supi(t)i1andw2liminfw(t)supw(t)w1, 35

where

i1=p1p2(β1+β2)p2+η222(R0S-1),i2=p1β1p2p2+η222(R1S-1),w1=αp1ηp2(β1+β2)[p2+η222(R0S-1)],w2=αp1ηβ1p2[p2+η222(R0S-1)]. 36

Proof

We noted from Eq. (31) that

i(t)p1p2(β1+β2)p2+η222(R0S-1)+(β1+β2)Φ(t)+η2B2(t)t-1t[logi(t)]0t.

The application of lim as t approaches with sup property to the above equation gives

limtsupi(t)p1p2(β1+β2)p2+η222(R0S-1)=i1. 37

We can also write the following assertion from Eq. (31) that

1t[logi(t)]0tβ1s(t)-p2-η222+η2B2(t)t, 38

implies

limtinfi(t)p1β1p2p2+η222(R1S-1)=i2. 39

Now the last equation of system (25) can be re-written as

w(t)=1η[αi(t)+η4t0tw(x)dB4(x)-w(t)-w(0)t]. 40

Taking lim as t and sup of both sides we get

limtsupw(t)αp1ηp2(β1+β2)[p2+η222(R0S-1)]=w1. 41

On the other hand lim as t with the application of inf property Eq. (40) takes the following form

limtinfw(t)αp1ηβ1p2[p2+η222(R1S-1)]=w2. 42

Thus from Eqs. (37)–(42) it could be noted that i2liminfi(t)limsupi(t)i2 and w2liminfw(t)limsupw(t)w2 whenever t tend to .

Numerical simulation

In this section we present the numerical simulation to verify the analytical work. Let us give a short overview to simulate the stochastic differential equations. Let

dX(t)=α(t,X(t))dt+b(t,X(t))dB(t),X(0)=X0. 43

Producing a sample X(t) around t with the utilization of the solution of the above equation, we will find X(t) over a continuous period of time. Making use of the notation X~k, Bk and X~(kΔt) for simplicity instead of B(kΔt). We discretize the Eq. (43) gives

X~Δt,X~Δt,,X~NΔt. 44

In the above equation, N symbolizes the time steps and Δt=T/N. It could be noted that the application of Itô-Taylor expansion leads to the stochastic Euler Maruyama (SEM) method to simulate the problem under consideration. To retrieve the discretized trajectory of X(t) from the Eq. (43), we may use the algorithm of Euler Maruyama:

  1. Simulate ΔBk as a normal distributed random variable N(0,Δt).

  2. Putting X~0:=X0 and applying X~k+1 by following the formula given below
    X~k+1=b(kΔt,X~)ΔBk+α(kΔt,X~k)Δt+X~k, 45
    for ΔBk=Bk+1-Bk and k=0,,N-1.

The stochastic Euler Maruyama technique will be applied for the numerical simulation of the system reported by Eq. (1) which takes the form

sk+1-sk=Π-β1skik-β2skwk-p1skΔt+η1skΔB1k,ik+1-ik=β1skik+β2skik-p2ikΔt+η2ikΔB2k,rk+1-rk=σik+νsk-μrkΔt+η3rkΔB3k,wk+1-wk=αik-ηwkΔt+η4rkΔB4k, 46

which implies that

sk+1=sk+Π-β1skik-β2skwk-p1skΔt+η1skΔB1k,ik+1=ik+β1skik+β2skik-p2ikΔt+η2ikΔB2k,rk+1=rk+σik+νsk-μrkΔt+η3rkΔB3k,wk+1=wk+αik-ηwkΔt+η4rkΔB4k. 47

Using Matlab software and coding the above algorithm to solve the proposed system. To run our model for large-scale numerical findings we use feasible parameters value with time units of 0 to 400 days. Once we execute the algorithm the following graphs are generated as given by Figs. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 10, 11, 12 and 13. This may verify our analytical findings. Moreover, Figs. 6, 7, 8 and 9 demonstrate the temporal dynamics of the susceptible, infected, recovered, and the reservoir respectively, which theoretically investigate that there will be always susceptible and recovered population while the SARS-CoV-2 virus infected population and reservoir will vanishes. This may verify the results of our extinction analysis. Since the disease extinct continuously depends on the basic reproductive parameter and whenever R0S<1 the disease could be easily eliminated. So from the biological point of view, it is very important to keep this quantity low as much as possible to eliminate the disease. On the other hand Figs. 10, 11, 12 and 13 visualize the persistence analysis of the proposed problem. We noted that in this the trajectories of susceptible s(t), SARS-CoV-2 virus infected (i(t)), recovered (r(t)) and reservoir (w(t)) reveals that the the disease will persist and all these compartments reach to their endemic stage whenever the value of R0S>1. So special attention is required to make a control mechanism. Since the sensitivity analysis reveals that the disease transmission co-efficient has the highest sensitivity index and a great influence on the threshold parameter therefore minimization of this parameter would significantly decrease the value of the threshold parameter. It could be also noted from the sensitivity index of the vaccination parameter that vaccination has also a strong influence and so increasing the vaccination would strongly decrease the value of basic reproductive number. Finally, we also noted a relationship between the noise intensity with disease extinction and persistence i.e., there is a direct relation between the intensity of white noise and extinction while inverse relation between the intensity of white noise and persistence.

Figure 6.

Figure 6

The graph visualizes the temporal dynamics of the epidemic problem described by the model (1) on a large scale for the class of susceptible individuals (s(t)) in case of extinction. The parameters value used are taken from S1 while (0.5, 0.3, 0.2, 0.1) are assumed to be the initial size of population.

Figure 7.

Figure 7

The graph visualizes the time dynamics of the model (1) in case of extinction for the class of infected population (i(t)) against parametric values taken from S1 and (0.5, 0.3, 0.2, 0.1) are the initial sizes for compartmental population.

Figure 8.

Figure 8

The graph visualizes the temporal dynamics of the model under consideration (1) in the long run for the recovered class (r(t)) against the parametric value taken from S1 and initial classes (0.5, 0.3, 0.2, 0.1).

Figure 9.

Figure 9

The graph visualizes the time dynamics of the reported model (1) in case of extinction for the reservoir (w(t)) subject to the parametric values of S1 and (0.5, 0.3, 0.2, 0.1) initial populations.

Figure 10.

Figure 10

The graph visualizes the dynamics of the epidemic problem described by the model (1) in the case of persistence for the susceptible class (s(t)) against the values of the parameters taken from S2 and (0.5, 0.3, 0.2, 0.1) are the initial sizes of population.

Figure 11.

Figure 11

The graph visualizes the persistence of the epidemic problem framed by model (1) for the infected class (i(t)) against parameters value taken from S2 and various sizes of initial population (0.5, 0.3, 0.2, 0.1).

Figure 12.

Figure 12

The graph visualizes the time dynamics of the model (1) on large scale for recovered population (r(t)) against the parametric value of S2 and (0.5, 0.3, 0.2, 0.1) initial population.

Figure 13.

Figure 13

The graph visualizes the large scale numerical simulation of the reservoir class (w(t)) of the model reported by Eq. (1) against parameters value S2 and (0.5, 0.3, 0.2, 0.1).

Conclusion

We developed a correlated stochastic epidemic model to discuss the temporal dynamics of the SARS-CoV-2 virus keeping in view the various source of randomness and vaccination of susceptible individuals. We proved the existence and positivity of the solutions which guarantees the well-posedness of the model. In addition, conditions of SARS-CoV-2 extinction analysis and persistence were obtained. A detailed sensitivity analysis has been performed and showed that the disease transmission coefficient and vaccination parameters are the highest sensitive parameters to disease transmission and control. This suggests that the vaccination has a major impact on the dynamics of the SARS-CoV-2. We observed that a rise in this parameter’s value would significantly increase disease extinction. Conversely, the disease persistence reduction is subjected to speedy vaccination, and therefore there is a need for a fast vaccination immunization. Numerical findings were conducted and support the analytical results. Results of this study permit supplementary discussion, such as increasing the impact of the noise. We would encourage researchers to investigate adding jumps to our model.

Acknowledgements

We would like to express our sincere appreciation to the United Arab Emirates University Research office for the financial and technical support. We would also want to thank the Deanship of Scientific Research (Project No.: RGP.2/214/43), King Khalid University, Abha, K.S.A. The author, Basem Al Alwan, therefore, acknowledges with thanks to DSR and the Chemical Engineering Department in the College of Engineering (KKU) for financial and technical support.

Author contributions

All author contributed equally.

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