ESTABLISHMENT OF "CLIMATE AND KOVID-19" DATABASE
Ekaterina BATCHVAROVA, Climate, Atmosphere and Waters Institute at BAS, Bulgaria
Zoya MATEEVA, Climate, Atmosphere and Waters Institute at BAS, Bulgaria
The SARS-COV-2 virus and the Covid-19 disease it causes have proven to be very incomprehensible, compared to traditional influenza viruses and diseases. This situation dictates the need to prioritize research efforts to shed light on the multifaceted nature of the SARS-COV-2 virus and its determinants and to look for ways to tackle Covid-19. Among the many probable factors that determine the emergence of the virus and its retention/transmission in the air basin are environmental factors. Meteorological elements (solar radiation and sunshine duration, air temperature&humidity, wind direction&speed, vertical atmosphere stratification and ground air quality, precipitation, etc.) and phenomena (inversions, fogs, heavy rainfall, wind storms),etc.) are leading environmental factors. They are key to the origin, life, and behavior of microorganisms, incl. viruses, and are directly related to the spread of vector-, air-, water-, food-borne, and other diseases.
In addition, the weather has an impact on people's behavior, opportunities, and preferences for staying outdoors, or their gathering indoors, where the risk of infection increases. On the other hand, weather conditions can contribute to the occurrence or aggravation of a number of other diseases, incl. chronic, which in turn increases the susceptibility of the human body to viral influences, including SARS-Cov2. The influence of climate on these processes increases even more with its changes, in the conditions of which some already known biotic and a-biotic mechanisms arise, and for others, we are yet to learn
This necessitates the study of weather and climate, as a factor of SARS-COV-2 and Covid-19, respectively. It is necessary to start special monitoring of the system "Climate/weather - SARS-COV-2 / Kovid-19", the generation and accumulation of data, and maintaining them in a constantly updated, specialized database. The approach to its creation is discussed in this report[1].
Mots clés : Climatic factors|Sars-Cov2|Covid-19|Data base
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