Population-based assessment of the burden of COVID-19 infection in African countries: a first-year report card and public health implications.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic constitutes a global health threat and poses a major burden on the African continent. We assessed the real-world burden of COVID-19 infection in African Union (AU) member states to determine the distributional patterns of epidemiological measures during the first 1 year of the pandemic.

Methods

This retrospective cross-sectional study utilized COVID-19 data from publicly available data repositories of the African Center for Disease Control and Prevention and Our World in Data for the period February 2020 to January 2021. AU member states were classified into low, medium, and high burdens based on COVID-19 morbidity. We conducted descriptive and inferential analyses of COVID-19-reported cases, deaths, recoveries, active cases, COVID-19

SUBMITTER: Mgbere O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10540606 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature