Does the data tell the true story? A modelling assessment of early COVID-19 pandemic suppression and mitigation strategies in Ghana

• Nana Kena Frempong,

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

  Affiliation Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, College of Science, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7138-3526

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• Theophilus Acheampong,

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

  Affiliation Department of Economics, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8026-9071

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• Ofosuhene O. Apenteng,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research Group for Genomic Epidemiology, National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark

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• Emmanuel Nakua,

  Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana

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• John H. Amuasi

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

  * E-mail: amuasi@kccr.de

  Affiliations Department of Global Health, College of Science, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana, Kumasi Center for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR), Kumasi, Ghana, Bernhard Nocht Institute of Tropical Medicine (BNITM), Hamburg, Germany

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