Abayomi, Samuel OkeOluwafemi, Isaac BadaGaniyu, RasaqAdodo, Victoria2021-09-202021-09-202021Oke, 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.1099-1476https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/mma.7769http://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/22506A research article published in Mathematical Methods in the Applied SciencesCoronavirus 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-19enAsymptomaticCase detectionCoronavirusReproduction numberRe-infectionsArticle