World Summit on COVID-19 (Part V)
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Accepted Abstracts

COVID Incidence Rate Implications with Climate Variable- Review on Global Resurgence of the Pandemic

Hesham Magd* and Henry Jonathan
Modern College of Business and Science, Oman.

Citation: Magd H, Jonathan H (2022) COVID Incidence Rate Implications with Climate Variable- Review on Global Resurgence of the Pandemic. SciTech Central COVID-19.

Received: May 31, 2022         Accepted: June 03, 2022         Published: June 03, 2022

Abstract

Coronavirus has caused a reappearance of infections and increase in cases in many countries. Studies were done earlier to understand the role of climatic, environmental, and socio-demographic factors in the transmission, spread, and viability of SARS-CoV-2. Those factors are not examined because of the resurgence due to the emergence of new variants, and specific climatic variables such as latitude and the effect on the coastline of countries are not studied critically in any context. This study explores the role climate variables play in disease incidence and resurgence.The study was conducted by examining the cases reported per million population, latitude degrees, and coastline length in two criteria groups (n= 120 and 10) spanning five geographic continental regions. The collected data were statistically analyzed to validate the three prepositions of the study. The cases reported per million population were least in countries lying below 25˚-degree latitude and countries in this range have the mean highest coastline length. Our analysis in n=120 group reveals moderate relation among rise in cases with latitude degrees (r = .425, p< .01, n =120) but associated negatively with coastline length. From the top countries having the longest coastline length, the association among the variables reveals a weak relationship exists between cases and latitude(r = .356, p = .312, n = 10) while no correlation is observed with coastline length. Analysis states that the resurgence observed globally from the increase in the incidence rate and infections are also relatively due to the influence of climatic variables among the other factors that are known to show the collective effect of disease transmission and spread of infection.Rise in the incidence rate and global resurgence of cases can be explained from standpoint of climatic variables along with socio-demographic factors. But observations indicate that the disease incidence trend is not similar across all countries and no single factor leads to a rise in cases.