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Study of COVID-19 pandemic in London (UK) from urban context
COVID-19 transmission in London city was discussed in this work from an urban context. The association between COVID-19 cases and climate indicators in London, UK were analysed statistically employing published data from national health services, UK and Time and Date AS based weather data. The clima...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7480337/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32921865 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2020.102928 |
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author | Ghosh, Aritra Nundy, Srijita Ghosh, Sumedha Mallick, Tapas K. |
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description | COVID-19 transmission in London city was discussed in this work from an urban context. The association between COVID-19 cases and climate indicators in London, UK were analysed statistically employing published data from national health services, UK and Time and Date AS based weather data. The climatic indicators included in the study were the daily averages of maximum and minimum temperatures, humidity, and wind speed. Pearson, Kendall, and Spearman rank correlation tests were selected for data analysis. The data was considered up to two different dates to study the climatic effect (10th May in the first study and then updated up to 16th of July in the next study when the rest of the data was available). The results were contradictory in the two studies and it can be concluded that climatic parameters cannot solely determine the changes in the number of cases in the pandemic. Distance from London to four other cities (Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, and Sheffield) showed that as the distance from the epicentre of the UK (London) increases, the number of COVID-19 cases decrease. What should be the necessary measure to be taken to control the transmission in cities have been discussed. |
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spelling | pubmed-74803372020-09-09 Study of COVID-19 pandemic in London (UK) from urban context Ghosh, Aritra Nundy, Srijita Ghosh, Sumedha Mallick, Tapas K. Cities Article COVID-19 transmission in London city was discussed in this work from an urban context. The association between COVID-19 cases and climate indicators in London, UK were analysed statistically employing published data from national health services, UK and Time and Date AS based weather data. The climatic indicators included in the study were the daily averages of maximum and minimum temperatures, humidity, and wind speed. Pearson, Kendall, and Spearman rank correlation tests were selected for data analysis. The data was considered up to two different dates to study the climatic effect (10th May in the first study and then updated up to 16th of July in the next study when the rest of the data was available). The results were contradictory in the two studies and it can be concluded that climatic parameters cannot solely determine the changes in the number of cases in the pandemic. Distance from London to four other cities (Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, and Sheffield) showed that as the distance from the epicentre of the UK (London) increases, the number of COVID-19 cases decrease. What should be the necessary measure to be taken to control the transmission in cities have been discussed. Elsevier Ltd. 2020-11 2020-09-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7480337/ /pubmed/32921865 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2020.102928 Text en © 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Ghosh, Aritra Nundy, Srijita Ghosh, Sumedha Mallick, Tapas K. Study of COVID-19 pandemic in London (UK) from urban context |
title | Study of COVID-19 pandemic in London (UK) from urban context |
title_full | Study of COVID-19 pandemic in London (UK) from urban context |
title_fullStr | Study of COVID-19 pandemic in London (UK) from urban context |
title_full_unstemmed | Study of COVID-19 pandemic in London (UK) from urban context |
title_short | Study of COVID-19 pandemic in London (UK) from urban context |
title_sort | study of covid-19 pandemic in london (uk) from urban context |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7480337/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32921865 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2020.102928 |
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