COVID-19 is a highly contagious disease which
has almost frozen the entire globe along with its economy. It’s astonishing
ability of human-to-human and surface-to-human transmission has turned the
planet Earth into recurrent catastrophic phases. In this research article, the
ANN approach was applied to analyze COVID-19 cases in Burkina Faso. This study
is based on daily new cases of COVID-19 in Burkina Faso for the period 1
January 2020 – 25 March 2021. The out-of-sample forecast covers the period 26
March 2021 – 31 July 2021. The residuals and forecast evaluation criteria
(Error, MSE and MAE) of our simple model indicate that the model is stable and
acceptable. The results of the study basically imply that daily COVID-19 cases
in Burkina Faso are likely to remain high over the out-of-sample period. The
government of Burkina Faso should ensure the continued compliance to control
and preventive COVID-19 measures in line with WHO standards.
Country : Zimbabwe
1 Dr. Smartson. P. NYONI2 Mr. Thabani NYONI3 Mr. Tatenda. A. CHIHOHO
ZICHIRe Project, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe
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