The impact of delay strategies on the dynamics of coronavirus pandemic model with nonlinear incidence rate

Abstract

Currently, the world is facing a devastating pandemic of a novel coronavirus, which started as an outbreak of pneumonia of unknown cause in Wuhan city of China in December of 2019. According to the recent report of the World Health Organization (WHO), 210 countries convicted badly 1.8 million infections and almost 200,000 causalities. Due to the non-availability of the vaccination, delay strategies such as community distancing, travel restrictions, extension in breaks, use of face-mask, and self-quarantine are the effective treatments to control the pandemic of coronavirus. So, we proposed the delayed susceptible-exposed-infected-recovered model with a nonlinear incidence rate to study the effective role of control strategies. For this analysis, we discussed three types of equilibria of the model such as trivial, coronavirus free, and coronavirus existence with delay terms. The local and global stabilities are investigated by using well-posed notations like the Lasalle invariance principle, Routh-Hurwitz criterion, and Lyapunov function. In the end, some useful replications are presented. © 2024 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.