ABSTRACT
Media coverage plays an important role in prevention and control the spread of COVID-19 during the pandemic. In this paper, an SIHRS model of COVID-19 pandemic with impulse and time delay under media coverage is established. The positive and negative emotions of public are considered by the impact of confirmed cases and medical resources. In order to restrain the negative information of public, the factor of policies and regulations with impulse and time delay is introduced. Furthermore, the system model is simulated and verified by the reported data of COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan. The main results are as follows: (1) When the implementation rate of the negative information generated by the confirmed cases gradually reduced to 0.4 times, the cumulative confirmed cases will be significantly reduced to about 37000, indicating that the popularization of pandemic related media information should be broad; (2) When the implementation rate affected by the amount of policies and regulations information gradually increases to 3 times, the cumulative confirmed cases will be significantly reduced to about 28000, indicating that the policies and regulations information should be continuously and incrementally reported; (3) When the inhibition rate of policies and regulation information on negative information gradually increases to 3 times, the cumulative confirmed cases will also be significantly reduced to about 27000 cases, indicating that the targeted policies and regulations information has a significant impact on inhibiting the corresponding negative emotions.