Table 1.
Emerging COVID-19 space–time clusters and their RR for having more observed than expected COVID-19 cases, from January 21 to March 15 and March 31, 2020, at the country level within the Latin American, Caribbean, and African regions.
| Region, date range, and cluster number | Cluster | Duration | RRa,b | ||||
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1 | Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Barbados, Colombia, Grenada, Guyana, Saint Lucia, Peru, Paraguay, Suriname, Trinidad, Uruguay, Saint Vincent, Venezuela | March 11-15, 2020 | 3.02 | ||
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2 | Bahamas, Belize, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cayman Islands, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, El Salvador, Turks and Caicos Islands | March 9-15, 2020 | 4.04 | ||
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3 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | March 12-15, 2020 | 19.31 | ||
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January 21 to March 31 | ||||||
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1 | Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru | March 17-31, 2020 | 11.61 | ||
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2 | Bahamas, Belize, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cayman Islands, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, El Salvador, Turks and Caicos Islands | March 22-31, 2020 | 3.87 | ||
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3 | Barbados, Grenada, Trinidad, Saint Vincent | March 22-31, 2020 | 2.53 | ||
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4 | Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay | March 24-31, 2020 | 2.79 | ||
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5 | Antigua and Barbuda | March 21-31, 2020 | 60.48 | ||
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6 | Puerto Rico, Saint Maarten, Virgin Islands | March 20-31, 2020 | 23.27 | ||
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7 | Curacao | March 27-31, 2020 | 2.99 | ||
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8 | Dominica | March 22-31, 2020 | 21.85 | ||
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9 | Saint Lucia | March 26-31, 2020 | 1.25 | ||
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4 | Benin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Algeria, Ghana, Guinea, Gambia, Mali, Mauritania, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo | March 6-15, 2020 | 9.46 | ||
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5 | Madagascar, Mauritius, Mayotte, Reunion, Seychelles | March 13-15, 2020 | 21.35 | ||
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6 | Rwanda, Uganda | March 9-15, 2020 | 37.75 | ||
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7 | Sudan | March 13-15, 2020 | 45.75 | ||
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10 | Madagascar, Mozambique, Mauritius, Mayotte, Reunion, Seychelles | March 17-31, 2020 | 8.75 | ||
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11 | Rwanda, Uganda | March 18-31, 2020 | 34.34 | ||
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12 | Benin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Algeria, Ghana, Guinea, Gambia, Mali, Mauritania, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo | March 19-31, 2020 | 3.83 | ||
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13 | Botswana | March 15-31, 2020 | 6.92 | ||
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14 | Equatorial Guinea | March 21-31, 2020 | 5.91 | ||
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15 | Djibouti | March 22-31, 2020 | 31.00 | ||
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16 | Egypt, Sudan | March 20-31, 2020 | 4.47 | ||
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17 | Guinea-Bissau | March 30-31, 2021 | 3.27 | ||
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18 | Zambia | March 26-31, 2020 | 13.84 | ||
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19 | Tanzania | March 18-31, 2020 | 2.85 | ||
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20 | Morocco | March 28-31, 2021 | 2.86 | ||
aRR: relative risk estimate.
bAll RRs have a P value <.001