SARS-CoV-2 incidence monitoring and statistical estimation of the basic and time-varying reproduction number at the early onset of the pandemic in 45 sub-Saharan African countries

Abstract The world battled to defeat a novel coronavirus 2019 (SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19), a respiratory illness that is transmitted from person to person through contacts with droplets from infected persons. Despite efforts to disseminate preventable messages and adoption of mitigation strategies by g...

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Published in:	BMC Public Health
Main Authors:	Michael Safo Oduro, Seth Arhin-Donkor, Louis Asiedu, Damazo T. Kadengye, Samuel Iddi
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	BMC 2024-02-01
Subjects:	COVID-19, Infectious disease, Basic reproduction number, Sub-Saharan Africa Transmission
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-18184-8