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ArticleEpidemiologia (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Transmission Dynamics and Short-Term Forecasts of COVID-19: Nepal 2020/2021.

Sushma Dahal, Ruiyan Luo, Raj Kumar Subedi, Meghnath Dhimal, Gerardo Chowell

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Article in Epidemiologia (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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Sushma DahalDepartment of Population Health Sciences, School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4991-3110
Ruiyan LuoDepartment of Population Health Sciences, School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA.
Raj Kumar SubediBhaskar Tejshree Memorial Foundation, Kathmandu 44600, Nepal.ORCID 0000-0002-9173-4063
Meghnath DhimalNepal Health Research Council, Kathmandu 44600, Nepal.ORCID 0000-0001-7176-7821
Gerardo ChowellDepartment of Population Health Sciences, School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA.

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Abstract

Nepal was hard hit by a second wave of COVID-19 from April-May 2021. We investigated the transmission dynamics of COVID-19 at the national and provincial levels by using data on laboratory-confirmed RT-PCR positive cases from the official national situation reports. We performed 8 week-to-week sequential forecasts of 10-days and 20-days at national level using three dynamic phenomenological growth models from 5 March 2021-22 May 2021. We also estimated effective and instantaneous reproduction numbers at national and provincial levels using established methods and evaluated the mobility trends using Google's mobility data. Our forecast estimates indicated a declining trend of COVID-19 cases in Nepal as of June 2021. Sub-epidemic and Richards models provided reasonable short-term projections of COVID-19 cases based on standard performance metrics. There was a linear pattern in the trajectory of COVID-19 incidence during the first wave (deceleration of growth parameter (

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