Research Article
Mathematical Modelling of COVID-19 Transmission in Kenya: A Model with Reinfection Transmission Mechanism
Table 4
Represent the baseline parameter values and the corresponding predicted parameter values using Kenya COVID-19 data.
| Parameter symbol | Baseline value | Source | Data predicted value |
| κ | 0.5 | Estimated | 0.511 | β | 0.5 | Estimated | 0.575 | θm | 0.48 | [39] | 0.65 | θa | 0.48 | [39] | 0.581 | θh | 0.48 | [39] | 0.566 | q | 0.6 | [21] | 0.558 | σ | 0.196 | [7] | 0.183 | f | 0.80 | [2, 29, 30] | 0.707 | α | 0.1168 | [21] | 0.119 | ξ | 0.0025 | [21] | 0.002 | | 0.0008 | [33] | 0.0009 | | 0.0008 | [33] | 0.000786 | | 0.0008 | [33] | 0.000698 | | 0.0016 | [33] | 0.000023 | | 0.0016 | [33] | 0.000151 | | 0.05 | [28, 29] | 0.0564 | | 0.05 | [28, 29] | 0.0465 | | 0.05 | [28, 29] | 0.0521 | | 0.05 | [28, 29] | 0.0663 | | 0.20 | [33] | 0.234 | | 0.20 | [33] | 0.234 | | 1/180 | [14] | 0.0056 | | 0.15 | [21] | 0.207 | | 0.30 | Estimated | 0.344 | θ | 0.01 | Estimated | 0.0533 |
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