Research background: On 11 March 2020, the Covid-19 epidemic was identified by the
World Health Organization (WHO) as a global pandemic. The rapid increase in the scale of …

ABSTRACT The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic currently in process
differs from other infectious disease calamities that have previously plagued humanity in the …

We study the problem of a policymaker who aims at taming the spread of an epidemic while
minimizing its associated social costs. The main feature of our model lies in the fact that the …

Mathematical modeling of epidemiological diseases using differential equations are of great
importance in order to recognize the characteristics of the diseases and their outbreak. The …

The effective reproductive number R t has taken a central role in the scientific, political, and
public discussion during the COVID-19 pandemic, with numerous real-time estimates of this …

Robot Dance is a computational optimization platform developed in response to the COVID-
19 outbreak, to support the decision-making on public policies at a regional level. The tool is …

COVID-19 data exhibit various biases, not least a significant weekly periodic oscillation
observed globally in case and death data. There has been significant debate over whether …

The primary data for Covid-19 pandemic is in the form of time series for the number of
confirmed, recovered and dead cases. This data is updated every day and is available for …

In this article, basics and principles of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic including its virology,
lineage dynamics and variants of concern, clinical presentation and severity, and …

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted our societies with unprecedented magnitude.
Various social rules and technological solutions have been designed to limit the spread of …