Early view of the potential impact of government policy responses on reproductive number of COVID-19 in African countries: Evidence from Cameroon

Gilles Quentin Kane, Marius Amba () and Taoufiki Mbratana ()
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Taoufiki Mbratana: Faculty of Economics and Managment, University of Yaounde II, Cameroon.

Economics Bulletin, 2020, vol. 40, issue 3, 2419-2430

Abstract: This brief paper analyses the potential impact of government policy responses on reproducible number of COVID-19 in African countries, using Cameroon as a case study. Based on public data from the Ministry of Public Health, results from susceptible-infected-recovered (SIR) model show that the first two sets of containment measures led to a decrease in the estimated reproduction number. However, the set of release measures taken to ease the impact of the COVID-19 on the Cameroon's economy first led to an increase in the reproduction number before a decrease. Therefore,a combination of containment measures followed by releases measures can be effective to prevent the spread of the pandemic.

Keywords: COVID-19; containment measures; release measures; reproduction number; Cameroon (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I1 O1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-09-24
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