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Using the Banach contraction principle and the Arzela\u2013Ascoli theorem, existence and uniqueness results for the proposed model are presented. Two different numerical approaches, the fractional Euler and Lagrange polynomial methods, are employed to approximate the model\u2019s solution. The model is then fitted to data associated with COVID-19 deaths in Pakistan between 1 January 2022 and 10 April 2022. It is concluded that our model is much aligned with the data when the order of the fractional derivative \u03b6=0.96. The two different approaches are then compared with different step sizes. It is observed that they behave alike for small step sizes and exhibit different behaviour for larger step sizes. Based on the numerical assessment of the model presented herein, the impact of vaccination and the fractional order are highlighted. It is also noted that vaccination could remarkably decrease the spikes of different emerging variants of SARS-CoV-2 within the population.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/axioms12050480","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,5,16]],"date-time":"2023-05-16T02:27:04Z","timestamp":1684204024000},"page":"480","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Analysis of the Solution of a Model of SARS-CoV-2 Variants and Its Approximation Using Two-Step Lagrange Polynomial and Euler Techniques"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6818-086X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Muhammad","family":"Usman","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Abdus Salam School of Mathematical Sciences, Government College University, Katchery Road, Lahore 54000, Pakistan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5528-1207","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mujahid","family":"Abbas","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mathematics, Government College University, Katchery Road, Lahore 54000, Pakistan"},{"name":"Department of Medical Research, China Medical University Hospital, China Medical University, Taichung 40402, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1252-1650","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Andrew","family":"Omame","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Abdus Salam School of Mathematical Sciences, Government College University, Katchery Road, Lahore 54000, Pakistan"},{"name":"Department of Mathematics, Federal University of Technology, Owerri 460114, Nigeria"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,5,16]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"141","DOI":"10.1038\/s41579-020-00459-7","article-title":"Characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19","volume":"19","author":"Hu","year":"2021","journal-title":"Nat. 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