Abstract

Corona virus is an infectious disease that became a pandemic in 2020 and has killed many people around the world. This study modifies the work of mugisha et al., 2021 by introducing “awareness factor” to quantify the influence of the awareness programs in the dynamics of the disease. The existence and stability of the disease free equilibrium state of the modified model is also established and is found to be locally asymptotically stable. The next generation method is used to compute the effective reproduction number. Our results demonstrate that well-timed and adequately implemented awareness campaigns can lead to a significant reduction in reproduction number and effectively curtail the spread of the disease.