Impact of population density and weather on COVID-19 pandemic and SARS-CoV-2 mutation frequency in Bangladesh.

ABSTRACT: Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) has caused the recent pandemic worldwide. Research studies are focused on various factors affecting the pandemic to find effective vaccine or therapeutics against COVID-19. Environmental factors are the important regulators of COVID-19 pandemic. This study aims to determine the impact of weather on the COVID-19 cases, fatalities and frequency of mutations in Bangladesh. The impacts were determined on 1, 7 and 14 days of the case. The study was conducted based on Spearman's correlation coefficients. The highest correlation was found between population density and cases (rs = 0.712). Among metrological parameters, average temperature had the strongest correlation (rs = -0.675) with the cases. About 82% of Bangladeshi isolates had D614G at spike protein. Bo

SUBMITTER: Sharif N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7844183 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature