Modeling the impact of combined use of COVID Alert SA app and vaccination to curb COVID-19 infections in South Africa

Musyoka Kinyili; Justin B. Munyakazi; Abdulaziz Y. A. Mukhtar

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0264863

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Modeling the impact of combined use of COVID Alert SA app and vaccination to curb COVID-19 infections in South Africa

Musyoka Kinyili ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: 4100150@myuwc.ac.za, davismusyooo@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2100-4313

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Justin B. Munyakazi,

Roles Software, Supervision, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7420-6595

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Abdulaziz Y. A. Mukhtar

Roles Software, Supervision, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa
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Modeling the impact of combined use of COVID Alert SA app and vaccination to curb COVID-19 infections in South Africa

Musyoka Kinyili,
Justin B. Munyakazi,
Abdulaziz Y. A. Mukhtar

Published: February 3, 2023
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0264863

About the Authors

Musyoka Kinyili

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: 4100150@myuwc.ac.za, davismusyooo@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2100-4313

Justin B. Munyakazi

Roles Software, Supervision, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7420-6595

Abdulaziz Y. A. Mukhtar

Roles Software, Supervision, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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