SARS-CoV-2 incidence monitoring and statistical estimation of the basic and time-varying reproduction number at the early onset of the pandemic in 45 sub-Saharan African countries.

"availability of data and materials the data supporting the findings of this study are sourced from the covid-19 data repository by the center for systems science and engineering (csse) at johns hopkins university and is openly available at https://github com/cssegisanddata/covid-19 ."

"availability of data and materials the data supporting the findings of this study are sourced from the covid-19 data repository by the center for systems science and engineering (csse) at johns hopkins university and is openly available at https://github com/cssegisanddata/covid-19 ."

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateEthical approval was not required for this study since the data used for this study are secondary data. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsThe authors declare no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare no competing interests."

"Funding This work was self-funded."