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Disaster Med Public Health Prep
. 2020 Sep 3;1-15.
doi: 10.1017/dmp.2020.314. Online ahead of print.
Effectiveness of containment measures to control the spread of COVID-19 in North Africa
Ouail Ouchetto[SUP] 1 2 [/SUP], Asmaa Drissi Bourhanbour[SUP] 3 4 [/SUP], Mounir Boumhamdi[SUP] 2 [/SUP]
Affiliations
Abstract
Since the first case of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2, identified in December 2019, in Wuhan in China, the number of cases rapidly increased into a pandemic. Governments worldwide have adopted different strategies and measures to interrupt the transmission of Covid-19. The main objective was to report and evaluate the effectiveness of the adopted measures in North Africa countries. In these countries, the effective reproductive number R(t), the na?ve case fatality rate, and the adjust case fatality rate were estimated and compared on different dates. The obtained results show that the early strict application of containment measures and confinement could help contain the spread of the epidemic and maintain the number of deaths low. These measures might be useful for other countries that are experiencing the start of local COVID-19 outbreaks. They could also serve to halt the spread of new epidemics or pandemics.
Keywords: COVID-19; North Africa; case of fatality rate; containment measures; effective reproductive number.
. 2020 Sep 3;1-15.
doi: 10.1017/dmp.2020.314. Online ahead of print.
Effectiveness of containment measures to control the spread of COVID-19 in North Africa
Ouail Ouchetto[SUP] 1 2 [/SUP], Asmaa Drissi Bourhanbour[SUP] 3 4 [/SUP], Mounir Boumhamdi[SUP] 2 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 32878677
- DOI: 10.1017/dmp.2020.314
Abstract
Since the first case of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2, identified in December 2019, in Wuhan in China, the number of cases rapidly increased into a pandemic. Governments worldwide have adopted different strategies and measures to interrupt the transmission of Covid-19. The main objective was to report and evaluate the effectiveness of the adopted measures in North Africa countries. In these countries, the effective reproductive number R(t), the na?ve case fatality rate, and the adjust case fatality rate were estimated and compared on different dates. The obtained results show that the early strict application of containment measures and confinement could help contain the spread of the epidemic and maintain the number of deaths low. These measures might be useful for other countries that are experiencing the start of local COVID-19 outbreaks. They could also serve to halt the spread of new epidemics or pandemics.
Keywords: COVID-19; North Africa; case of fatality rate; containment measures; effective reproductive number.