Forecasting the spread of COVID19 in Hungary

Abstract

Time series analysis of the COVID19/ SARS-CoV-2 spread in Hungary is presented. Different methods effective for short-term forecasting are applied to the dataset, and predictions are made for the next 20 days. Autoregression and other exponential smoothing methods are applied to the dataset. SIR model is used and predicted 64% of the population could be infected by the virus considering the whole population is susceptible to be infectious Autoregression, and exponential smoothing methods indicated there would be more than a 60% increase in the cases in the coming 20 days. The doubling of the number of total cases is found to around 16 days using an effective reproduction number.