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Association Between Weather Parameters and SARS‐CoV‐2 Confirmed Cases in Two South African Cities

Several approaches have been used in the race against time to mitigate the spread and impact of COVID‐19. In this study, we investigated the role of temperature, relative humidity, and particulate matter in the spread of COVID‐19 cases within two densely populated cities of South Africa—Pretoria and...

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Autores principales: Ogunjo, Samuel, Olusola, Adeyemi, Orimoloye, Israel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9635841/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36348988
http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2021GH000520
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description Several approaches have been used in the race against time to mitigate the spread and impact of COVID‐19. In this study, we investigated the role of temperature, relative humidity, and particulate matter in the spread of COVID‐19 cases within two densely populated cities of South Africa—Pretoria and Cape Town. The role of different levels of COVID‐19 restrictions in the air pollution levels, obtained from the Purple Air Network, of the two cities were also considered. Our results suggest that 26.73% and 43.66% reduction in PM2.5 levels were observed in Cape Town and Pretoria respectively for no lockdown (Level 0) to the strictest lockdown level (Level 5). Furthermore, our results showed a significant relationship between particulate matter and COVID‐19 in the two cities. Particulate matter was found to be a good predictor, based on the significance of causality test, of COVID‐19 cases in Pretoria with a lag of 7 days and more. This suggests that the effect of particulate matter on the number of cases can be felt after 7 days and beyond in Pretoria.
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spelling pubmed-96358412022-11-07 Association Between Weather Parameters and SARS‐CoV‐2 Confirmed Cases in Two South African Cities Ogunjo, Samuel Olusola, Adeyemi Orimoloye, Israel Geohealth Research Article Several approaches have been used in the race against time to mitigate the spread and impact of COVID‐19. In this study, we investigated the role of temperature, relative humidity, and particulate matter in the spread of COVID‐19 cases within two densely populated cities of South Africa—Pretoria and Cape Town. The role of different levels of COVID‐19 restrictions in the air pollution levels, obtained from the Purple Air Network, of the two cities were also considered. Our results suggest that 26.73% and 43.66% reduction in PM2.5 levels were observed in Cape Town and Pretoria respectively for no lockdown (Level 0) to the strictest lockdown level (Level 5). Furthermore, our results showed a significant relationship between particulate matter and COVID‐19 in the two cities. Particulate matter was found to be a good predictor, based on the significance of causality test, of COVID‐19 cases in Pretoria with a lag of 7 days and more. This suggests that the effect of particulate matter on the number of cases can be felt after 7 days and beyond in Pretoria. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-11-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9635841/ /pubmed/36348988 http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2021GH000520 Text en © 2022 The Authors. GeoHealth published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of American Geophysical Union. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_fullStr Association Between Weather Parameters and SARS‐CoV‐2 Confirmed Cases in Two South African Cities
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title_short Association Between Weather Parameters and SARS‐CoV‐2 Confirmed Cases in Two South African Cities
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9635841/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36348988
http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2021GH000520
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