Research Article

A Mathematical Model of COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of Bangkok, Thailand

Table 2

Parameters used in the model and their meaning.

Model parametersDescription

The recruitment rate into the susceptible compartment
The effective contact rate
The effectiveness of social distancing
The proportion of individuals who use a face mask
The efficacy of face masks
The fraction of exposed individuals who show clinical symptoms after the incubation period
The rate of progression from the exposed compartment to the infectious compartment
The isolation rate for individuals in the symptomatically infected compartment
The recovery rate of individuals in the symptomatically infected compartment
The COVID-19 disease mortality rate for individuals in the infectious compartment
The isolation rate of asymptomatically infectious individuals
The recovery rate of asymptomatically infectious individuals
The recovery rate of individuals in the quarantined compartment
The COVID-19 disease mortality rate for individuals in the quarantined compartment
The natural death rate of all individuals