Evaluation of the Canadian government policies on controlling the COVID-19 outbreaks

Mengyao Chen, Yuehua Wu and Baisuo Jin

Statistical Theory and Related Fields, 2023, vol. 7, issue 3, 223-234

Abstract: In this paper, we investigate the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada and evaluate the Canadian government policies on controlling COVID-19 outbreaks. The first case of COVID-19 was reported in Ontario on 25 January 2020. Since then, there have been over million cases by now. During this time period, the federal, provincial and local governments have implemented regulations and policies in order to control the pandemic. To evaluate these government policies, which may be done by analysing the infection rate, infection period and reproductive number of COVID-19, we approach the problem by introducing an extended susceptible-exposed-infectious-removed (SEIR) model and conduct the model inference by using the iterated filter ensemble adjustment Kalman filter (IF-EAKF) algorithm. We first divide the time period into phases according to the policy intensities in each province by segmenting the time period from 4 March 2020 to 31 October 2020 into three time phases: the exploding phase, the strict policy implementation phase, and the provincial reopening phase. We then use IF-EAKF algorithm to obtain the estimates of the model parameters. We show that the infection rate in the second phase is lower than that in both first and third phases. We also discuss the number of new COVID-19 cases under different policy intensities and different policy durations in the third wave of the pandemic.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1080/24754269.2023.2201108

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