Our modelling results showed that the normalized RP model fitted well to the reported SARS-CoV-2 cases data (R2 = 0.512, P < 0.001) (Fig. 2). The value of R0 was estimated of 2.30 from reservoir to person, and from person to person and 3.58 from person to person which means that the expected number of secondary infections that result from introducing a single infected individual into an otherwise susceptible population was 3.58.
Fig. 2 Curve fitting results of the RP model