Assessing the Relationship between COVID-19, Air Quality, and Meteorological Variables: A Case Study of Dhaka City in Bangladesh

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dc.contributor.authorIslam, Md Sarifulen
dc.contributor.authorRahman, Mizanuren
dc.contributor.authorTusher, Tanmoy Royen
dc.contributor.authorRoy, Shimulen
dc.contributor.authorRazi, Mohammad Arfaren
dc.coverage.cityDhakaen
dc.coverage.countryBangladeshen
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-02T17:44:46Zen
dc.date.available2021-09-02T17:44:46Zen
dc.date.issued2021-01-15en
dc.description.abstractThe novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has become a serious health concern worldwide for almost a year. This study investigated the effects of selected air pollutants and meteorological variables on daily COVID-19 cases in Dhaka city, Bangladesh. Air pollutants and meteorological data for Dhaka city were collected from 8 April to 16 June 2020 from multiple sources. This study implied spearman’s correlation to see the correlation between daily COVID-19 cases and different air pollutants and meteorological variables. Besides, multiple linear regression and the Generalized Additive Model (GAM) were used to investigate the association between COVID-19 cases and other variables used in this study. Due to lockdown measures, significant differences between PM₂.₅, SO₂, NO₂, CO, and O₃ in 2019 and 2020 were observed in Dhaka city. We used lag-0, lag-7, lag-14, and lag-21 days on daily COVID-19 cases to look at the lag effect of different air pollutants and meteorology. The LRM results showed that the daily COVID-19 cases are significantly correlated with relative humidity (lag-0 days) and pressure (lag-14 days) (p < 0.05). Additionally, the GAM model results showed a significant nonlinear association among daily COVID-19 cases and meteorology and air quality variables on different lag days. Therefore, our results suggest that an effective public health intervention measures should be implemented to slowdown the spreading of COVID-19.en
dc.description.versionPublished versionen
dc.format.extent16 pagesen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.4209/aaqr.200609en
dc.identifier.issn1680-8584en
dc.identifier.issue6en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/104910en
dc.identifier.volume21en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherTaiwan Association for Aerosol Researchen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectCOVID-19en
dc.subjectAir qualityen
dc.subjectCorrelationen
dc.subjectMeteorologyen
dc.subjectDhakaen
dc.titleAssessing the Relationship between COVID-19, Air Quality, and Meteorological Variables: A Case Study of Dhaka City in Bangladeshen
dc.title.serialAerosol and Air Quality Researchen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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