HUMIDITY AND SPREAD OF THE COVID-19 AT SAUDI ARABIA (KSA)
A. ELBENDARY *
Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Tanta University, 31527 Tanta, Egypt.
A. AL-FALIH
Department of Botany and Microbiology, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, KSA.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
The effect of humidity on the spread of corona virus (COVID-19) is studied through analysis some of data taken from Ministry of health and from Weather Station homepages of KSA with taken into considerations the relation between number of infected people at the area of low humidity like (Riyadh and Al Qassem) and at the area of high humidity like (Jeddah and Dammam) in the time between Mar-2020 to Jul-2021. The percentage of infected people to total people is calculated at this different four areas, the data under consideration is analyzed by some of programs like Excel which helps us for this analytical study.
Keywords: Heterocyclic compound,, Covid-19, proteins, corona viruses, free amino acids, humidity, lipids, corona disease, tissues, infection at KSA
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