Potential Spread of Covid-19 by Airborne

Ramadhan Tosepu.,SKM.,M.Kes.,Ph.D
Program of postgraduate of Public Health,
University of Halu Oleo Indonesia
Background
• 21st century one of the
biggest panics
• Lockdown of more than 6
billion people of the planet
• Viruses can be transmitted
by being influenced by
several factors, including
climatic conditions
 Covid-19 In ASEAN Country

Update: October 10, 2020

Temperature according to the development of Covid-19: Jakarta

• The lowest average

temperature of
26.1 °C
• The highest
temperature of
28.6 °C
Correlation Temperature with Covid-19 in Jakarta
Province: Period January-March,2020

Tosepu, R., Gunawan, J., Effendy, D. S., Lestari, H., Bahar, H., & Asfian, P. (2020). Correlation between
weather and Covid-19 pandemic in Jakarta, Indonesia. Science of The Total Environment, 138436.
Correlation Temperature with Covid-19 in Jawa
Barat Province: Period March-April, 2020
Correlation Temperature with Covid-19 In
Sulawesi Tenggara Province
Total death cases per million population and average low
temperature

Iqbal, M. M., Abid, I., Hussain, S., Shahzad, N., Waqas, M. S., & Iqbal, M. J. (2020). The effects of regional climatic
condition on the spread of COVID-19 at global scale. Science of The Total Environment, 739, 140101.
Climatology with Covid-19: Study in the world
Ø Bashir et al. (2020) New-York city, USA: Average and
minimum temperature, and quality of air significantly
influence the COVID-19 transmissions.
Ø Sahin (2020), , Turkey, Wind shows a positive correlation
with COVID-19 cases.
Ø Gupta et al. (2020), US: Find temperature and humidity
can predict the COVID-19 transmission for US.
Ø Ma et al. (2020), Wuhan: Find significant positive
correlation with diurnal temperature with COVID-19 death.
Ø Sobral et al. (2020), International sample: Positive
relationship between precipitation and COVID-19
transmission.
Ø Temperature and humidity have a significant and
consistent distribution of seasonal behavior of respiratory
viruses (Sajadi et al., 2020)
Virus in the Airborne
v The virus is thought to survive up to
four days on normal surfaces, but
perhaps not so much on surfaces
heated by the sun.
v “Spanish Flu” pandemic of 1918-19,
found that sunshine and fresh air
were most helpful in stopping the
spread of the disease and reducing
mortality rates among those who had
contracted it.
v The temperature and humidity affect
the activity duration of the virus in
the environment
 Possibility that spread of COVID-19

Particles
in indoor
Environment

Beyond
the 2
m

Airborne

https://www.epa.gov/coronavirus/indoor-air-and-coronavirus-covid-19
 Covid-19 in the Indoor

Respiratory Restaurants,
in fitness
droplets classes

Indoor
Poorly
crowded
ventilated
spaces
https://www.euronews.com/2020/07/09/airborne-spread-of-coronavirus-may-be-possible-world-health-organization-says
 Preventing distribution of Covid-19 in Indoor

Ventilation
Indoor Cleaning Disinfection
Filtration

https://www.epa.gov/coronavirus/science-and-technical-resources-related-indoor-air-and-coronavirus-covid-19
 Covid-19 by Airborne?

The note was added 2 weeks after the CDC added and then subsequently
removed information from the website regarding airborne spread of the virus,
saying that the update had been posted by mistake and was still under review

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/how-covid-spreads.html
 CONCLUSION
• There is a correlation between climatic factors
and Covid-19
• Potential of distribution of Covid-19 in the
airborne need to more research
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