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Atmospheric Variables and Additional Urgent Solutions for Combating COVID-19

Version 1 : Received: 25 March 2020 / Approved: 25 March 2020 / Online: 25 March 2020 (04:00:09 CET)
Version 2 : Received: 9 April 2020 / Approved: 9 April 2020 / Online: 9 April 2020 (16:39:04 CEST)
Version 3 : Received: 21 June 2020 / Approved: 21 June 2020 / Online: 21 June 2020 (16:19:26 CEST)

A peer-reviewed article of this Preprint also exists.

Roy, I. The role of temperature on the global spread of COVID-19 and urgent solutions. Int. J. Environ. Sci. Technol. (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13762-020-02991-8 Roy, I. The role of temperature on the global spread of COVID-19 and urgent solutions. Int. J. Environ. Sci. Technol. (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13762-020-02991-8

Abstract

This article investigates whether the weather has any role in terms of spread and vulnerability of COVID-19 and how that knowledge can be used to arrest this fast spreading disease. It highlights that temperature and humidity both are important for transmitting the virus- temperature being the stronger factor. A dry, cool environment is the most favourable state for the spread of the virus. In fact, high temperature environment significantly reduces the risk from the virus. Warm places and countries are likely to be less vulnerable. Only regulating temperature level can provide drastic results to stop and arrest the outbreak. Some urgent solutions are proposed based on that knowledge. The novelty of such approach is- it can be applied overnight and implemented immediately across the globe. It is very cost effective and practically without side effects. No vast amount of funding is required to adopt these solutions. Apart from existing guidelines, these additional measures are likely to reduce the spread of the disease dramatically. Following the scientific discussion, such solutions may be thought of implementing worldwide, especially to vulnerable countries, as an emergency basis.

Keywords

COVID-19; coronavirus; temperature; humidity; solutions

Subject

Environmental and Earth Sciences, Atmospheric Science and Meteorology

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Comment 1
Received: 9 April 2020
Commenter: Indrani Roy
Commenter's Conflict of Interests: Author
Comment: I added additional figures (Fig 1a and b) to make results more convincing. More discussions are also included.
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