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Novel Coronavirus in Nigeria: Epidemiological analysis of the first 45 days of the pandemic

2020-04-17 epidemiology Title + abstract only
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BackgroundOn December 31, 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) was notified of a novel coronavirus in China that was later named COVID-19. On March 11, 2020, the outbreak of COVID-19 was declared a pandemic. The first instance of the virus in Nigeria was documented on February 27, 2020. MethodsThis study provides a preliminary epidemiological analysis of the first 45 days of COVID-19 outbreak in Nigeria quantifying. We estimated the early transmissibility via time-varying reproduction numb...

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