Forecasting COVID-19 Infections in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Countries using Machine Learning
This work addresses a domain-specific problem for public health planning in GCC countries, but it is incremental as it applies existing methods to new regional data.
The paper tackled forecasting COVID-19 infections in Gulf Cooperation Council countries by developing time series models using a public dataset, achieving high precision in predictions.
COVID-19 has infected more than 68 million people worldwide since it was first detected about a year ago. Machine learning time series models have been implemented to forecast COVID-19 infections. In this paper, we develop time series models for the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries using the public COVID-19 dataset from Johns Hopkins. The dataset set includes the one-year cumulative COVID-19 cases between 22/01/2020 to 22/01/2021. We developed different models for the countries under study based on the spatial distribution of the infection data. Our experimental results show that the developed models can forecast COVID-19 infections with high precision.