Correlation between weather and Covid-19 pandemic in Jakarta, Indonesia

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Highlights

  • Covid-19 is a pandemic disease

  • The weather factor is one of the factors that triggered the spread of Covid-19

  • The spread of covid-19 in Indonesia is very fast, so the results of this study will be useful in efforts to prevent the spread of covid-19 disease

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the correlation between weather and covid-19 pandemic in Jakarta Indonesia. This study employed a secondary data analysis of surveillance data of covid-19 from the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Indonesia and weather from the Meteorological Department of the Republic of Indonesia. The components of weather include minimum temperature (°C), maximum temperature (°C), temperature average (°C), humidity (%), and amount of rainfall (mm). Spearman-rank correlation test was used for data analysis. Among the components of the weather, only temperature average (°C) was significantly correlated with covid-19 pandemic (r = 0.392; p < .01). The finding serves as an input to reduce the incidence rate of covid-19 in Indonesia.

Keywords

Covid-19
Coronavirus
Temperature
Humidity
Rainfall
Indonesia

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