Forecasting Covid-19 New Cases in Switzerland

In this research article, the ANN approach was applied to investigate COVID-19 cases in Switzerland. This study is based on monthly new cases of COVID-19 in Switzerland 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 the applied model indicate that the model is stable in forecasting daily COVID-19 cases in Switzerland. The results of the study generally suggest that daily COVID-19 cases in Switzerland are likely to remain significantly high over the out-of-sample period. The government should continue to enforce sanitary rules postulated by the WHO and also embrace vaccine uptake in the country. We also encourage people in the country to always behave responsibly with regards to face-mask wearing, social distancing and so on., in order to stop avoidable infections in the country.