Table 4 The total cost with respect to the control policy, over a 100 day period.

From: A patchy theoretical model for the transmission dynamics of SARS-Cov-2 with optimal control

Cases

Case 1

Case 2

\({\mathcal {{{R}}}}_{0}\)

Weak symmetric coupling

4.70407 \(\times ~ 10^{5}\)

3.19530 \(\times ~ 10^{5}\)

3.96

Strong symmetric coupling

4.34942 \(\times ~ 10^{5}\)

3.14661 \(\times ~ 10^{5}\)

2.82

Weak asymmetric coupling

4.59452 \(\times ~ 10^{5}\)

3.14468 \(\times ~ 10^{5}\)

3.84

Strong asymmetric coupling

4.30111 \(\times ~ 10^{5}\)

3.04021 \(\times ~ 10^{5}\)

3.79