The basic reproduction number of COVID-19 across Africa

• Sarafa A. Iyaniwura ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: iyaniwura@math.ubc.ca

  Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Institute of Applied Mathematics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8854-2335

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• Musa Rabiu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Mathematics, Statistics & Computer Science, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

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• Jummy F. David,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Laboratory for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Fields-CQAM Laboratory of Mathematics for Public Health (MfPH), York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Jude D. Kong

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliations Laboratory for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Africa-Canada Artificial Intelligence and Data Innovation Consortium (ACADIC), York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Laboratory for Applied and Industrial Mathematics (LIAM), York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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