Association of COVID-19 pandemic with meteorological parameters over Singapore
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2020Author
Kumar Pani, Shantanu
Lin, Neng-Huei
RavindraBabu, Saginela
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Abstract
Meteorological parameters are the critical factors affecting the transmission of infectious diseases such as Middle
East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), and influenza. Consequently, infectious disease incidence rates are likely to be influenced by the weather change. This study investigates the role
of Singapore's hot tropical weather in COVID-19 transmission by exploring the association between meteorological parameters and the COVID-19 pandemic cases in Singapore. This study uses the secondary data of COVID-19
daily cases from the webpage of Ministry of Health (MOH), Singapore. Spearman and Kendall rank correlation
tests were used to investigate the correlation between COVID-19 and meteorological parameters. Temperature,
dew point, relative humidity, absolute humidity, and water vapor showed positive significant correlation with
COVID-19 pandemic. These results will help the epidemiologists to understand the behavior of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus against meteorological variables. This study finding would
be also a useful supplement to help the local healthcare policymakers, Center for Disease Control (CDC), and the
World Health Organization (WHO) in the process of strategy making to combat COVID-19 in Singapore.
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Southeast Asia; SARS-CoV-2; COVID-19; Meteorology; CorrelationLink to resource
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140112Collections
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