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Impact of climatic factors on viability of SARS-CoV-2 and transmission prospective of COVID-19: An overview

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Last updated: 22 Jan 2023

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Infectious diseases
Medical virology

Abstract

The emergence of the new coronavirus disease-19 (Covid-19) from exotic wild animal market in Hubei, China during the late December 2019 has spread in 250 countries and territories posing menace to health of people around the globe. Covid-19 has a great impact on public health, mortality and economy. The causing agent of Covid-19 is severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Due to unavailability of the potential drug or treatment for Covid-19, multi factorial research is conducted to reduce its transmission. Climatic factors play a key role in regulating the transmission of the infectious diseases like Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), Middle East Respiratory syndrome, and influenza. So, the rate of prevalence of the infectious disease is likely to be inclined by the variation in climatic indicators. We conclude from the past and present experiences that coronavirus transmission is elevated under low temperature and high humidity and vice versa. It further infers that after three hours of incubation of SARS-CoV-2, no infectious virus could be recovered from tissue paper and printing. Smooth surfaces are found to be more favorable for SARS-CoV-2. We may infer that climatic variations greatly affects infectious disease transmission pattern. We need more to study about under laying multifaceted casual affiliation between climate and communicable diseases and employ this information to the forecast of their upcoming impact.

DOI

10.21608/mid.2020.34805.1034

Keywords

COVID-19, pandemic, outbreak, Climatic factors

Authors

First Name

Naveed

Last Name

Akhtar

MiddleName

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Affiliation

Department of Zoology, Government Postgraduate College Pattoki (Kasur), Punjab, Pakistan

Email

coordinator.concordiakkc@gmail.com

City

Kasur

Orcid

0000-0002-5305-7487

First Name

Naveed

Last Name

Nawaz

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Zoology, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

Email

faheem263@gmail.com

City

Kasur

Orcid

0000-0002-5585-4965

First Name

Sadaf

Last Name

BiBi

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Biological Science, Concordia College Khudian Khas (Kasur), Pakistan

Email

naveed.gcul@gmail.com

City

Kasur

Orcid

-

First Name

Muhammad

Last Name

Ahmad

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Botany, Concordia College Khudian Khas, Pakistan

Email

muhmmadahmad1917@gmail.com

City

Kasur

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-

Volume

1

Article Issue

3

Related Issue

16205

Issue Date

2020-11-01

Receive Date

2020-06-05

Publish Date

2020-11-01

Page Start

118

Page End

125

Print ISSN

2682-4132

Online ISSN

2682-4140

Article File

MID_Volume 1_Issue 3_Pages 118-125.pdf

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Review Article

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1,160

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Publication Title

Microbes and Infectious Diseases

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22 Jan 2023