1. Introduction
Novel Corona Virus (COVID-19), is associated with the respiratory
disorder in humans which has been declared as a global epidemic and
pandemic in the first quarter of the year 2020 by the World Health
Organization (https://www.who.int/ novel-coronavirus-2019). People with
lowimmunity, old age, immunocompromised and medical problems specially
related to lungs, diabetes, cardiac related problems are more prone to
Covid 19 disease. The symptoms are cough, cold, breathing problem very
similar to flu. Exact transmission route of COVID-19 is yet to be
identified; it was transmitted mainly by respiratory droplets in humans
(Ge et al., 2013; Huang et al., 2020). Climate conditions are classified
as top predictors of coronavirus illnesses (Dalziel et al., 2018).
Climate factors includes wind speed, humidity, temperature (Yuan et al.,
2006; Bashir et al. 2020). Bull (1980) reported that pneumonia’s
mortality rate is highly correlated with weather changes. Preventive
measures are to protect oneself by washing hands frequently, avoiding
touching the mouth, nose, and face, and by maintaining social distancing
(1 meter or 3 feet) with other people. It is reported that there are two
important stages of Covid 19; stage-II and stage-III. In stage-II, there
is person-to-person transmission and in stage-III, there is a community
transmission. The first case of Covid 19 was reported in India on 30
January 2020, originating from China. All most after two months this
disease spread in almost all parts of India. Majority of countries of
world have noticed a huge number of Covid 19 cases from December 2019
onwards. India is being looked upon by various nations now as a World
Leader and even WHO acknowledged that world is looking towards Indian
strategies to contain the outbreak of this epidemic (Sharma, 2020).
India accounts for almost one-fifth of the world’s population and is
second leading country in terms of population in the world. India
contributes heavily to the world’s GDP and is amongst the most prominent
developing country in the world with fairly strong economic growth
percentages (Myers, 2020). India’s good closeness with majority of the
nations in the world and its helpful nature makes it a perfectally for
other countries. Therefore, the analysis of COVID-19 outbreak in Indian
region is closely watched and monitored by the World and there is a need
of comprehensive analytical studies based on different strategies taken
by Indian administrators.
In this study, we aimed to ascertain the relation between maximum and
minimum temperatures with COVID 19 disease rates over India.