Fig 1. Timeline of the COVID-19 Ro estimates.
Symbols represent studies listed in Appendix (Table 1) while the red dashed line marks Ro = 4.5 derived from this study. An initial Ro = 2.2 was initially adopted by the World Health Organization (WHO).
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