dc.contributor.author | Abayomi, Samuel Oke | |
dc.contributor.author | Oluwafemi, Isaac Bada | |
dc.contributor.author | Ganiyu, Rasaq | |
dc.contributor.author | Adodo, Victoria | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-09-20T05:31:52Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-09-20T05:31:52Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Oke, A. S., Bada, O. I., Rasaq, G., & Adodo, V. Mathematical analysis of the dynamics of COVID‐19 in Africa under the influence of asymptomatic cases and re‐infection. Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences. | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1099-1476 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/mma.7769 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/22506 | |
dc.description | A research article published in Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) hit the world in December 2019, and only less than 5% of the
15 million cases were recorded in Africa. A major call for concern was the significant rise from 2%
in May 2020 to 4.67% by the end of July 15, 2020. This drastic increase calls for quick intervention
in the transmission and control strategy of COVID-19 in Africa. A mathematical model to
theoretically investigate the consequence of ignoring asymptomatic cases on COVID-19 spread
in Africa is proposed in this study. A qualitative analysis of the model is carried out with and
without re-infection, and the reproduction number is obtained under re-infection. The results
indicate that increasing case detection to detect asymptomatically infected individuals will be
very effective in containing and reducing the burden of COVID-19 in Africa. In addition, the fact
that it has not been confirmed whether a recovered individual can be re-infected or not, then
enforcing a living condition where recovered individuals are not allowed to mix with the
susceptible or exposed individuals will help in containing the spread of COVID-19 | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Wiley | en_US |
dc.subject | Asymptomatic | en_US |
dc.subject | Case detection | en_US |
dc.subject | Coronavirus | en_US |
dc.subject | Reproduction number | en_US |
dc.subject | Re-infections | en_US |
dc.title | Mathematical Analysis of the Dynamics of COVID-19 in Africa under the Influence of Asymptomatic Cases Andre-Infection | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |