id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-347746-epmcognh Sharma, Prayas Correlation between weather and COVID‐19 pandemic in India: An empirical investigation 2020-07-21 .txt text/plain 1859 111 54 The minimum, maximum temperature (°C) at 2 m, temperatures (°C) at 2 m and humidity at 2 m are significantly correlated with COVID‐19 pandemic cases (r = 0.93, 0.94, 0.83, and 0.30) at 99% two‐tailed significance level. The computerized datasets of daily confirmed cases, recovered cases, and death of COVID-19 pandemic in India were obtained from WHO through Wikipedia and statista.com for the period of January 29, 2020 to April 30, 2020. The Spearman's rank correlation coefficient calculated between confirmed case of COVID-19 and components of weather and summarized in Table 2 . This result is in line with the earlier research done in the case of SARS (Tan et al., 2005) , syncytial virus respiration (RSV) (Vandini et al., 2013) , and (Shi et al., 2020; who said, temperature is also the environment driver of COVID-19 outbreak in China). Correlation between weather and COVID-19 pandemic in India: An empirical investigation ./cache/cord-347746-epmcognh.txt ./txt/cord-347746-epmcognh.txt