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cord-284652-7npya3yx	Shim, Eunha	Spatial variability in reproduction number and doubling time across two waves of the COVID-19 pandemic in South Korea, February to July 2020	2020-10-08		.txt	text/plain	3735	172	55	Results At the regional level, Seoul and Gyeonggi Province have experienced the first peak of COVID-19 in early March, followed by the second wave in early June, withRt exceeding 3.0 and mean doubling time ranging from 3.6 to 10.1 days. Therefore, since 10 July, the government banned churches from organizing small gatherings other than regular worship services (KCDC, 2020a To estimate the regional and temporal variability in the reproduction number of COVID-19 in South Korea, including the second wave concentrated in the greater Seoul areas, we analysed the spatiotemporal progression of the epidemic in the country from mid-February to mid-July 2020. In this report, we estimated the doubling time and the effective reproduction number involving two epidemic waves of the COVID-19 epidemic in South Korea by employing the time series of cases by date of symptoms onset for the four most affected Korean regions: Seoul, Gyeonggi Province, Gyeongbuk Province, and Daegu.	./cache/cord-284652-7npya3yx.txt	./txt/cord-284652-7npya3yx.txt