Fall in temperature with seasonal progression towards winter will environmentally favour COVID-19 transmission in India, says a collaborative study conducted by Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bhubaneswar and All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhubaneswar.
As per the study titled ‘The COVID-19 spread in India and its dependence on temperature and relative humidity’ conducted by School of Earth, Ocean and Climate Sciences of IIT-Bhubaneswar and Department of Microbiology, AIIMS-Bhubaneswar, surface air temperature is closely related to COVID-19 and its spread.
“Low temperature and high humidity appear to favour the s