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      The COVID-19 pandemic in Africa: What can we expect?

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          In this paper we discuss the particularities of the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa, we comment on the first available data concerning the evolution of mortality rates. We think that our comments will help the decision-makers in Africa in their choices related to COVID-19 pandemic management.

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          Omar Maoujoud
          Journal
          Journal ID (nlm-ta): Value Health Reg Issues
          Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Value Health Reg Issues
          Title: Value in Health Regional Issues
          Publisher: Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of ISPOR--The professional society for health economics and outcomes research.
          ISSN (Print): 2212-1099
          ISSN (Electronic): 2212-1102
          Publication date PMC-release: 7 June 2020
          Publication date (Electronic): 7 June 2020
          Affiliations
          [1 ]Department of Nephrology, Avicennes Military hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech, Morocco
          [2 ]Research team of Pharmacoeconomics & Pharmacoepidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, Mohammed V University Rabat Morocco
          [3 ]Methodological Support Unit Mohammed VI University of Health Sciences (UM6SS), Casablanca Morocco
          Author notes
          [∗ ]Corresponding Author: Omar MAOUJOUD Department of Nephrology, Avicennes Military hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Cadi Ayyad university, Marrakech, Morocco, 40000 Gueliz Marrakech Tel: +212 673734212 maoujoud@ 123456gmail.com
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          Publisher ID: S2212-1099(20)30036-4
          DOI: 10.1016/j.vhri.2020.05.001
          PMC ID: 7275977
          SO-VID: 33679cba-1681-4490-981c-3aa5aeeced84
          Copyright © © 2020 Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of ISPOR--The professional society for health economics and outcomes research.
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          Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.

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          Date received : 27 April 2020
          Date accepted : 12 May 2020
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          Keywords: covid-19,africa,forecast,death
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          Keywords: covid-19, africa, forecast, death

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