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Editor, Senior Moderator
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int
. 2022 Jan 31.
doi: 10.1007/s11356-021-18403-4. Online ahead of print.
Transmission of COVID-19 pandemic (Turkey) associated with short-term exposure of air quality and climatological parameters
Aytac Perihan Akan[SUP] 1 [/SUP]
Affiliations
Abstract
The study aims to investigate associations between air pollution, climate parameters, and the diffusion of COVID-19-confirmed cases in Turkey using Spearman's correlation test as an empirical methodology by Statgraphics Centurion XVI (version 16.1) and to determine the risk factors accelerating the spread of SARS-CoV-2 virus. The present study demonstrates the strong impacts of air pollutants and weather conditions on the transmission of COVID-19 morbidity. Particularly, O[SUB]3[/SUB] and PM[SUB]10[/SUB] from air quality parameters exhibited the strongest correlation with the number of daily cases in Kütahya (rs = -0.62; p < 0.05) and Sivas (rs = -0.62; p < 0.05) provinces, respectively. In meteorological parameters, rainfall showed the highest impact (rs = 0.76; p < 0.05) on the number of daily COVID-19 cases in Denizli distinct. Moreover, this study suggested that the diffusion of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 in regions with high levels of air pollution and low wind speed is dominant. To prevent the negative effects of the future pandemic crisis on public health and economic systems, manifold implications to encourage strategies to reduce air pollution in the polluted region such as being prevalent the usage of renewable energy technologies in particular electricity generation and sustainable policies such as improving the health system should be implemented by decision-makers.
Keywords: COVID-19 Air quality parameters; Coronavirus Disease Air pollution; Meteorological parameters; SARS-CoV-2.
. 2022 Jan 31.
doi: 10.1007/s11356-021-18403-4. Online ahead of print.
Transmission of COVID-19 pandemic (Turkey) associated with short-term exposure of air quality and climatological parameters
Aytac Perihan Akan[SUP] 1 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 35098452
- DOI: 10.1007/s11356-021-18403-4
Abstract
The study aims to investigate associations between air pollution, climate parameters, and the diffusion of COVID-19-confirmed cases in Turkey using Spearman's correlation test as an empirical methodology by Statgraphics Centurion XVI (version 16.1) and to determine the risk factors accelerating the spread of SARS-CoV-2 virus. The present study demonstrates the strong impacts of air pollutants and weather conditions on the transmission of COVID-19 morbidity. Particularly, O[SUB]3[/SUB] and PM[SUB]10[/SUB] from air quality parameters exhibited the strongest correlation with the number of daily cases in Kütahya (rs = -0.62; p < 0.05) and Sivas (rs = -0.62; p < 0.05) provinces, respectively. In meteorological parameters, rainfall showed the highest impact (rs = 0.76; p < 0.05) on the number of daily COVID-19 cases in Denizli distinct. Moreover, this study suggested that the diffusion of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 in regions with high levels of air pollution and low wind speed is dominant. To prevent the negative effects of the future pandemic crisis on public health and economic systems, manifold implications to encourage strategies to reduce air pollution in the polluted region such as being prevalent the usage of renewable energy technologies in particular electricity generation and sustainable policies such as improving the health system should be implemented by decision-makers.
Keywords: COVID-19 Air quality parameters; Coronavirus Disease Air pollution; Meteorological parameters; SARS-CoV-2.