Interplay of weather variables in triggering the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 infection in Asia.

ABSTRACT: Weather variables are one of the crucial factors affecting respiratory infectious diseases; however, the effect of weather variables on the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is still inconclusive and varies in different regions. The present study investigated the effects of weather variables (maximum temperature, MT; relative humidity, RH; wind speed, WS; precipitation, PR; and dew point, DP) on daily infection and death cases in three lockdown phases in Asia as of November 1, 2020. Generalized additive lag model was used to analyze the risk associated with weather variables, with confounders like median age of the national population, population density, country and lockdown phases. Our findings revealed that during lockdown phases all five weather variables show association with daily

SUBMITTER: Dalal A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8126599 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature