Table 2.

The estimated branching ratio (BR) before and after the government interventions came into effect, namely $R_b,R_a$ respectively, for regions in China.

	BR
Regions	$R_b$	$R_a$
Heilongjiang	1.630176	0.493166
Sichuan	0.840021	0.625153
Shandong	0.554130	0.373512
Jiangxi	1.191025	0.442510
Anhui	0.809039	0.379250
Hunan	0.761641	0.444234
Zhejiang	2.744989	0.476066
Henan	1.035957	0.443853
Guangdong	1.685052	0.488747
Hubei	1.287094	0.202028