Assessing the Impact of Meteorological Factors on COVID-19 Seasonality in Metropolitan Chennai, India.

ABSTRACT: Meteorological factors may influence coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) transmission. Due to the small number of time series studies, the relative importance of seasonality and meteorological factors is still being debated. From March 2020 to April 2021, we evaluated the impact of meteorological factors on the transmission of COVID-19 in Chennai, India. Understanding how the COVID-19 pandemic spreads over the year is critical to developing public health strategies. Correlation models were used to examine the influence of meteorological factors on the transmission of COVID-19. The results revealed seasonal variations in the number of COVID-19-infected people. COVID-19 transmission was greatly aggravated by temperature, wind speed, nitric oxide (NO) and barometric pressure (BP) during summe

SUBMITTER: Suman TY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9414974 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature