The nexus between meteorological parameters and COVID-19 pandemic: case of Islamabad, Pakistan

Abdul Rehman; Fatima Ashraf; Zeeshan Javed; Mudassar Hussain; Taimoor Hassan Farooq; Awais Shakoor; Sher Muhammad Shahzad

doi:10.1007/s42398-020-00125-x

The nexus between meteorological parameters and COVID-19 pandemic: case of Islamabad, Pakistan

Environ Sustain (Singap). 2021;4(3):527-531. doi: 10.1007/s42398-020-00125-x. Epub 2020 Sep 17.

Authors

Abdul Rehman¹, Fatima Ashraf², Zeeshan Javed³, Mudassar Hussain⁴, Taimoor Hassan Farooq⁵, Awais Shakoor⁶, Sher Muhammad Shahzad⁷

Affiliations

¹ CAS-Key Laboratory of Crust-Mantle Materials and the Environments, School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026 People's Republic of China.
² Department of Chemistry, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore, Pakistan.
³ School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210044 People's Republic of China.
⁴ School of Economics and Management, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210094 People's Republic of China.
⁵ College of Life Science and Technology, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha, 410004 Hunan China.
⁶ Department of Environment and Soil Sciences, University of Lleida, Avinguda Alcalde Rovira Roure 191, 25198 Lleida, Spain.
⁷ Department of Soil and Environmental Sciences, College of Agriculture, University of Sargodha, Sargodha, Punjab 40100 Pakistan.

Abstract

The study aimed to investigate the correlation between meteorological parameters and the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in Islamabad, Pakistan. The meteorological parameters include temperature minimum (°C), temperature maximum (°C), temperature average (°C), humidity minimum (%), humidity maximum (%), humidity average (%), and rainfall (mm). The data of COVID-19, such as the number of new confirmed cases and deaths was obtained from the Ministry of Health, Pakistan. The correlations of various types, i.e., Pearson, Spearman, and Kendall correlations between meteorological parameters and COVID-19, were employed for data analyses. The results exhibited a highly significant relationship between COVID-19 and temperature minimum and temperature average among all meteorological parameters. The study findings may help competitive authorities to combat this disease in Pakistan.

Keywords: COVID-19; Correlation analysis; Islamabad; Meteorological parameters.