Emergence of infectious diseases, such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Zika virus disease have presented a major threat to public health. Despite intense research efforts, when and where new diseases appear are still a source of considerable uncertainty. As the COVID-19 has strike globally and form as a large scale pandemic disease in a very short phase. So understanding the severity of the disease to estimate the case fatality risk is a common epidemiological practice defined as the risk of death among cases. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread globally and stating about SAARC countries, the spread is not that alarming to panic, as several social distancing measures implemented by different SAARC governments, but still it is not in the situation of negligence and slackness. We have used forecast models i.e. ARIMA model and SIR Model to generate the short term forecasts of the COVID-19 spread in SAARC countries i.e. India, Afghanistan, Sri-Lanka, Maldives, Bhutan, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh using daily reported number of case from 22 January, 2020 up to 01 April , 2020, the forecast for each countries have been generated separately but for the validation we have used forecast of whole SAARC and values are really good for prediction as ARIMA(0,2,3) is best fitted for confirmed cases with MAPE of 17.1, similarly ARIMA (0,2,1) for Death cases with excellent MAPE of 5.5 and lastly ARIMA(0,2,1 8.1, which is very good, the prediction is shows rise of confirm cases to 35000, death tolls to 600 and recovery to 1600 till 30 th April, 2020. For the SIR Model for SAARC, the trend is comes to peak of Infection during 95 th to 120 th day of the pandemic period with β=0.25 and γ=0.007.
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