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Modeling the effects of contact tracing on COVID-19 transmission
Ali Traoré1, Fourtoua Victorien Konané1
1Laboratoire de Mathématiques et Informatique (LAMI), Département de Mathématiques, Université Joseph KI-ZERBO, 03 BP 7021 Ouagadougou 03 Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
Abstract:
In this paper, a mathematical model for COVID-19 that involves contact tracing is studied. The contact tracing-induced reproduction number and equilibrium for the model are determined and stabilities are examined. The global stabilities results are achieved by constructing Lyapunov functions. The contact tracing-induced reproduction number is compared with the basic reproduction number for the model in the absence of any intervention to assess the possible benefits of the contact tracing strategy.
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