Before revision:  To quantify the impact of government actions and support existing theories as well as policy makers, a data-driven model is developed . Data for two nations, Italy and Taiwan, is gathered and used to train several neural networks.
After revision:  To quantify the impact of government actions in mitigating viral transmission of SARS-CoV-2 by means of training neural network models to predict the daily slope increase of cumulative infected and by using such models in an optimisation study aimed at understanding the best set of mitigating actions . Data for two nations, Italy and Taiwan, is gathered and used to train several neural networks.