COVID-19
The influence of humidity on seasonality in India's COVID-19 and the effectiveness of policy controls in the second and third waves of 2021 and early 2022

Virendra Mane; Priya Prabhu; Poorva Bhalerao

Volume 4, Continuous , 2023

https://doi.org/10.51757/IJEHS.4.2023.699932

Abstract
  Background: The first wave of COVID-19 in India began to decline suddenly in September 2020 and appeared to be nearly over by the end of January 2021. At the time, no models or papers predicted or explained this decline. The authors hypothesized in their previous study that the cases decreased due to ...  Read More

COVID-19
The potential role of Monsoon-induced humidity in India’s unexpected Covid-19 case decline and subsequent rise considering seasonality

Virendra Mane; Poorva Bhalerao

Abstract
  Background: The COVID-19 pandemic was expected to affect India severely; cases rose exponentially from May-June 2020, but around mid-September reached their peak and started declining. It showed a sign of the wave’s completion by the end of January 2021. This decline was not predicted by any models ...  Read More