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      COVID-19 and Machine Learning Approaches to Deal With the Pandemic

       Sapna Juneja1*, Abhinav Juneja2, Vikram Bali3 and Vishal Jain4

       1IMS Engineering College, Ghaziabad, India

       2KIET Group of Institutions, Ghaziabad, India

       3JSS Academy of Technical Education, Noida, India

       4Sharda University, Greater Noida, India

       Abstract

      The whole world is struggling to live with COVID-19 and even a single step of technology revolution can help in dealing with this pandemic. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning approaches are being used by the researchers around the globe to completely understand and address this situation. In this Corona crisis, companies are trying to implement this AI and ML techniques in various fields ranging from manufacturing, resource management, remote monitoring etc. On the other hand, ML approach is being used by the researchers for supporting healthcare related issues arisen due to COVID-19.

      Keywords: COVID-19, support vector machine, convolutional neural network, drones

1.1 Introduction

Pandemics are a serious issue for human community. In general COVID-19 is not the first pandemic ever in the history and it will not be the last also. Many researchers across the globe are working towards the same in order to deal with it. The aim of this research is to shed a light on their efforts in order to identify that how machine learning approach can be useful in such situation. Machine Learning techniques can help out the researchers in determining the people who are more prone to risk of COVID-19, diagnosing such patients, help in the speedup of drug development, analyze the existing medicines which can be useful in this disease, prediction of escalation of the disease, help out in recognizing the virus in a more better way, and forecast the upcoming or next pandemic if any using the deep learning and machine learning approaches. Corona virus is a part of virus family and it is very hazardous for human body [1]. Many viruses of this family spread globally few years back, one of which is SARS in year [2] 2003 and another one was MERS in year 2012 [3]. The first case of Corona virus or Novel Corona virus appeared in Dec. 2019 so the World Health Organization named it as COVID-19 which stands for Corona virus Disease 2019. In March, 2020 the WHO announced Corona virus as a pandemic because of its huge spread among several countries which caused many persons critical ill and many got dead. It originated from a city of China named Wuhan where the first case of COVID appeared. The whole world is fighting against this deadly disease as no solution or vaccine till now has been developed against this disease that has the capability of generating antibodies in human being towards this corona virus. By July 24, the confirmed COVID cases in the whole world are 15,519,580 out of which 8,824,408 patients has been recovered and 633,605 deaths [4].

      1.1.1 COVID-19 and its Various Transmission Stages Depending Upon the Severity of the Problem

      COVID-19 is a contagious disease and can transmit through touch, contact or droplets of infected person. This transmission of COVID-19 is divided into 4 stages as:

      1st Stage: During 1st stage infection spread across the countries. People with travel history of foreign countries are being tested for this virus. There is no local transmission at this stage so the possibility of number of patients suffering from disease remains quite low.

      2nd Stage: At this stage the infection occurs locally and transmits through the infected patients of stage 1. In this stage along with the testing of the suspected patient, the source of the infection has also been identified to get him separate out from the entire community. The number of patients increases at this stage, though is not very difficult to manage. Social distancing is the best option to remain in stage 2 for avoiding further spread of the infection.

3rd Stage: In this stage, group transmission occurs and the number of cases increases rapidly. It becomes very difficult to find and isolate the source of transmission. It becomes difficult to deal with the situation in this stage because of substantial growth of number of patients [5].