Correlation analysis of COVID-19 cases and mutant variants with fatality rate.

Correlation analysis of cumulative cases with number of deaths (a); variant frequencies of SARS-CoV-2’ S 614G with fatality rates of COVID-19 among the five regions of Africa (b); ORF1ab P4715L with fatality rates of COVID-19 among the five regions of Africa (c); ORF1ab/RdRp with fatality rates of COVID-19 among the five regions of Africa (d). Pearson’s correlation coefficients (r) and p values were calculated.