Day-Level Forecasting of COVID-19 Transmission in India Using Variants of Supervised LSTM Models: Modeling and Recommendations

The novel Corona virus SARS-CoV-2 started with strange pneumonia of unknown cause in Wuhan City, Hubei Province of China. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak as a pandemic. Due to this pandemic situation, countries all over the world suffered from economic and psychological stress. To analyze the growth of this pandemic, this paper proposes a supervised LSTM model and its variants to predict the infectious cases in India using a publicly available dataset from Johns Hopkins University. Experimentation has been carried out using various models and window hyper-parameters to predict the infectious rate ahead of a week, 2 weeks, 3 weeks, and a month. The prediction results infer that every individual in India has to be safe at home and to follow the regulations provided by ICMR and the Indian Government to control and prevent others from being infected by this complicated epidemic.