Research Article

Effects of Location-Specific Meteorological Factors on COVID-19 Daily Infection in a Tropical Climate: A Case of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Table 2

Summary of Spearman’s rank correlation test on the association of new daily COVID-19 cases and weather parameters in Kuala Lumpur from 14 March 2020 to 31 August 2020.

NDI (°C)T (°C)u (m/s)AH (g/m3)API

New daily infection (NDI)1.00
Temperature (T)0.381.00
Wind speed (u)–0.360.121.00
Absolute humidity (AH)0.640.31–0.431.00
Air pollution index (API)–0.35–0.010.29–0.361.00

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