Relationship between Weather and Sociodemographic Indicators and COVID-19 Infection in Iraq

Rasul, Azad; Ibrahim, Sally Mohammed Elsayed

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“…At the local scale, Ahmadi et al [9] detected that COVID-19 infection in Iran is high in cities with low degrees of wind speed, humidity, and solar radiation. Rasul and Ibrahim [10] assessed the influence of climatic variables and sociodemographic characteristics on COVID-19 infections in Iraqi cities. In China, Wang et al [11] used linear regression to reveal that high temperature and high humidity significantly decreased the spread of COVID-19 in 100 cities.…”

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The Role of Climate in the Spread of COVID-19 in Different Latitudes across the World

Rasul

Balzter

2022

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Most transmittable diseases appear in a specific season and the effect of climate on COVID-19 is of special interest. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between climatic variables and the R0 of COVID-19 cases in a list of areas in different latitudes around the world. The daily confirmed cases of COVID-19 and climatic data of each area per day from January 2020 to March 2021 were utilized in the study. The GWR and MLR methods were used to identify the relationship between the R0 of COVID-19 cases and climatic variables. The MLR results showed a significant (p-value < 0.05) weak inverse relationship between the R0 of COVID-19 cases and wind speed, but a positive significant (p-value < 0.01) relationship with precipitation. This implies that lower COVID-19 cases were recorded with high wind speed and low precipitation. Based on GWR, the R0 of COVID-19 infection assessed against air temperature, rh, and precipitation was found to be statistically significant using the Monte Carlo p-value test, and the effect of climatic variables on COVID-19 infection appears to vary geographically. However, besides climatic variables, many socioeconomic factors could influence the virus’s transmission and will need to be considered in future studies.

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The Role of Climate in the Spread of COVID-19 in Different Latitudes across the World

Rasul

Balzter

2022

COVID

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“…At the local scale, Ahmadi et al (2020) detected that COVID-19 infection in Iran is high in cities with low degrees of wind speed, humidity, and solar radiation. Rasul and Ibrahim (2020) assessed the influence of climatic variables and sociodemographic characteristics on COVID-19 infections in Iraqi cities. In China, Wang et al (2020) used linear regression to reveal that high temperature and high humidity significantly decreased the spread of COVID-19 in 100 cities.…”

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Relationship between Climatic Variables and Reproduction Number (R0) of Confirmed COVID-19 Cases

Rasul

2021

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Most transmittable diseases appear in a specific season and the effect of climate on COVID-19 is of special interest. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between climatic variables and R0 of COVID-19 cases in one hundred areas around the world. The daily confirmed cases COVID-19 and climatic data of each area per day from January 2020 to March 2021 are utilized in the study. The GWR and MLR methods were used to identify the relationship between R0 of COVID-19 cases and climatic variables. The MLR results showed a significant (p-value < 0.05) weak inverse relationship between R0 of COVID-19 cases and wind speed, but a positive significant (p-value < 0.01) relationship with precipitation. It implies that lower COVID-19 cases were recorded with high wind speed and low precipitations. Based on GWR, R0 of COVID-19 infection against principal climatic variables has found statistically significant using Monte Carlo p-value test and the effect of climatic variables on COVID-19 infection appears to vary geographically. However, besides climatic variables, many socio-economic factors could influence the virus transmission and will be considered in future studies.

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Relationship between Monthly Climatic Variables and Worldwide Confirmed COVID-19 Cases

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2020

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Relationship between Weather and Sociodemographic Indicators and COVID-19 Infection in Iraq

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The Role of Climate in the Spread of COVID-19 in Different Latitudes across the World

The Role of Climate in the Spread of COVID-19 in Different Latitudes across the World

Relationship between Climatic Variables and Reproduction Number (R0) of Confirmed COVID-19 Cases

Relationship between Monthly Climatic Variables and Worldwide Confirmed COVID-19 Cases

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