Wuhan humidity and COVID-19

The view of Yangtze River from Tourism Attraction Huanghe Building, Wuhan, China.

On May 26th 2020, Xihua Agency in Beijing published (www.xinhuanet.com/mobile). Chinese researchers of Lanzhou University realized that 60% of COVID-19 cases happened where the range of the air temperature was about 5-15 Cº ; and addition, 73,8 % of COVID-19 cases occurred where absolute moist was about 3 and 10 gram/m³, also it looks to extent to higher latitute. This was some of the conclusion of data analysis of these researchers as part of their studies of global dispersion of covid-19.

Wuhan is the capital of Hubei Province located above Tropic of Cancer circle, so it is temperate climate with a relatively cold winters and hot, muggy, and rainy summers. The heat summer is intense and annoying, while in winter is cold, the air can stagnate on the ground. Precipitation is quite abundant and the amount is around 1,315 millimeters; therefore, the city with about 27 major big lakes inside de city among 192 in the total of main urban area and also Yangtze river crossing over, the humidity is too high. Wuhan is a city with a millennia-old history, but today it is a polluted metropolis as often happens in large cities in China; so, definitively Wuhan is on the range of temperature and moist described by Lanzhou researchers.

However; October 27, 2020 Norberto Paredes (@norbertparedes) in BBC Worlds (www.bbc.com/news/world) wrote “Wuhan Coronavirus in China, heroic city: how it was the center of covid-19 and now one of the main tourist reason in China.” Wuhan was one of more affected city in China by covid-19; nevertheless, nowadays the life is coming back stronger. Chinese government is promoting as a tourist destination, and this policy attracted 52 millions people.

At present times, the Prime Minister Angela Merkel from Germany declared a lot of worries about the second wave of contagious on the end of 2020 year and they expect hard time in spite of that already eight months have passed of the world epidemic announced by WHO. So, there is doubt the science of reasoning of Chinese government or what is the most important for them.

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