COVID-19 in Africa: Underreporting, demographic effect, chaotic dynamics, and mitigation strategy impact

• Nathan Thenon ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nathan Thenon, Sylvain Mangiarotti

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre d’Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère, CESBIO/OMP, UMR UPS-CNES-CNRS-IRD-INRAe, Toulouse, France, Animal Santé Territoires Risques Ecosystèmes, ASTRE/CIRAD, UMR CIRAD-INRAe-University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France

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• Marisa Peyre,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Animal Santé Territoires Risques Ecosystèmes, ASTRE/CIRAD, UMR CIRAD-INRAe-University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France

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• Mireille Huc,

  Roles Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre d’Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère, CESBIO/OMP, UMR UPS-CNES-CNRS-IRD-INRAe, Toulouse, France

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• Abdoulaye Touré,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre de Recherche et de Formation en Infectiologie de Guinée, Université Gamal Abdel Nasser de Conakry, Conakry, Guinea, Institut National de Santé Publique, Conakry, Guinea

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• François Roger,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Animal Santé Territoires Risques Ecosystèmes, ASTRE/CIRAD, UMR CIRAD-INRAe-University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France

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• Sylvain Mangiarotti

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nathan Thenon, Sylvain Mangiarotti

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sylvain.mangiarotti@ird.fr

  Affiliation Centre d’Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère, CESBIO/OMP, UMR UPS-CNES-CNRS-IRD-INRAe, Toulouse, France

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5959-9770

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