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ArticleChemosphere2021

Spatiotemporal variability of COVID-19 pandemic in relation to air pollution, climate and socioeconomic factors in Pakistan.

Khalid Mehmood, Yansong Bao, Muhammad Mohsin Abrar, George P Petropoulos, Saifullah, Ahmad Soban, Shah Saud, Zalan Alam Khan, Shah Masud Khan, Shah Fahad

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Article in Chemosphere, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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27 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Khalid MehmoodSchool of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China.
Yansong BaoCollaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters, CMA Key Laboratory for Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China; School of Atmospheric Physics, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China. Electronic address: ysbao@nuist.edu.cn.
Muhammad Mohsin AbrarNational Engineering Laboratory for Improving Quality of Arable Land, Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, China.
George P PetropoulosDepartment of Geography, Harokopio University of Athens, El. Venizelou 70, Kallithea, 17671, Athens, Greece.
SaifullahDepartment of Environmental Health, College of Public Health, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
Ahmad SobanSoftware Engineering Department Balochistan University of Information Technology, Engineering and Management Sciences (BUITEMS), Pakistan.
Shah SaudDepartment of Horticulture, Northeast Agriculture University, Harbin, China.
Zalan Alam KhanDepartment of Civil Engineering, COMSATS University, Abbotabad, 22010, Pakistan.
Shah Masud KhanDepartment of Horticulture, The University of Haripur, Haripur, 22620, Pakistan.
Shah FahadHainan Key Laboratory for Sustainable Utilization of Tropical Bioresource, College of Tropical Crops,Hainan University, Haikou, 570228, China; Department of Agronomy, The University of Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 21120, Pakistan. Electronic address: shah_fahad80@yahoo.com.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Information on the spatiotemporal variability of respirable suspended particulate pollutant matter concentrations, especially of particles having size of 2.5 μm and climate are the important factors in relation to emerging COVID-19 cases around the world. This study aims at examining the association between COVID-19 cases, air pollution, climatic and socioeconomic factors using geospatial techniques in three provincial capital cities and the federal capital city of Pakistan. A series of relevant data was acquired from 3 out of 4 provinces of Pakistan (Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) including the daily numbers of COVID-19 cases, PM

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Air PollutantsAir PollutionCOVID-19CitiesHumansPakistanPandemicsParticulate MatterSARS-CoV-2Socioeconomic FactorsAir PollutantsParticulate MatterClimate factorsCorrelationCOVID-19GeoinformationGLM modelGRAPM(2.5)

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PMID33482526
PMCPMC7797023

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