Article title: Life Expectancy and SARS-CoV-2 Genomic Variations Plays Key Role in COVID-19 Transmission and Low Fatality Rate in Africa Authors: Olabode Omotoso[1] Affiliations: University of Ibadan[1] Orcid ids: 0000-0002-9291-9289[1] Contact e-mail: olabodeomotoso@gmail.com License information: This work has been published open access under Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Conditions, terms of use and publishing policy can be found at https://www.scienceopen.com/. Preprint statement: This article is a preprint and has not been peer-reviewed, under consideration and submitted to AfricArXiv Preprints for open peer review. Funder: Not applicable DOI: 10.14293/111.000/000012.v1 Preprint first posted online: 21 September 2020 Keywords: Coronavirus, pandemic, mutations, low fatality, Africa, SARS-CoV-2, transmission, epidemiology, COVID-19, public health