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Results in Physics

Volume 28, September 2021, 104604
Results in Physics

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Second wave of COVID-19 in Italy: Preliminary estimation of reproduction number and cumulative case projections

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Abstract

The second wave of a novel coronavirus in Italy has caused 247,369 new cases and 1782 deaths only in October 2020. This significantly alarming infectious disease controlling board to impose again mitigation measures for controlling the epidemic growth. In this paper, we estimate the latest COVID-19 reproduction number (R_0) and project the epidemic size for the future 45 days. The R_0 value has calculated as 2.83 (95% CI: 1.5–4.2) and the cumulative incidences 100,015 (95% CI; 73,201–100,352), and daily incidences might be reached up to 15,012 (95% CI: 8234–16,197) respectively.

Keywords

Second wave COVID-19
Italian population
Projections
Epidemic size

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