Identifying changes in the reproduction number, rate of spread, and doubling time during the course of the COVID-19 outbreak whilst accounting for potential biases due to delays in case reporting in Dominican Republic. These results are impacted by changes in testing effort, increases and decreases in testing effort will increase and decrease reproduction number estimates respectively.
Using data available up to the: 2021-04-17
Note that it takes time for infection to cause symptoms, to get tested for SARS-CoV-2 infection, for a positive test to return and ultimately to enter the case data presented here. In other words, today’s case data are only informative of new infections about two weeks ago. This is reflected in the plots below, which are by date of infection.
Estimates are available to download here.
See our see Methods or our paper for an explanation of how these estimates are derived.
Estimate | |
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New confirmed cases by infection date | 728 (427 – 1376) |
Expected change in daily cases | Likely increasing |
Effective reproduction no. | 1.1 (0.96 – 1.4) |
Rate of growth | 0.037 (-0.011 – 0.1) |
Doubling/halving time (days) | 19 (6.6 – -64) |