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Investigating the Factors Affecting SARS-COV-2 Transmission and Mortality Rate in Sub-Saharan Africa

2022-07-19

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Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), also known globally as COVID-19, originated in December 2019 in Wuhan, Hubei province in China and has rapidly spread across the globe ever since. The first recorded case in sub-Saharan Africa was in Nigeria, on the 25th February, 2020. The virus continues to spread, and new variants of the disease have emerged, the number of deaths and new infections i...

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37033c3b-8d81-54a5-86c5-6805723d39d4
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10.20944/preprints202207.0276.v1
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