Ever since the arrival of the deadly virus called Covid19; a member from Corona virus family, there have been lots of disinformation and misinformation in circulation regarding the pandemic. According to World Health Organization (WHO) Covid-19 pandemic is accompanied by over abundance of information some of which are accurate and some are not from truth worthy sources, this makes it hard for people to find a reliable guidance they need.  Infodemic is term coined by WHO to describe high float of misinformation at the time of pandemic.

WHO and fact checking organizations across the globe warned that information speeds very fast on internet, but infodemic spreads faster than Covid – 19 viruses and poses greater thread in the fight against the pandemic.  In its series of twitter chats initiated to help fight Covid – 19, the Centre for Information and Development (CITAD) invited Tajudden Idris Wawo, a lecturer from the department of Geography, Sa’adu Rimi College of Education, Kano to clear air on the relationship between weather and Covid – 19 .

He began the discussion by explaining what whether and climate are, the relationship between the virus and weather and justify claims that cold regions in the world have high tendencies to catch the virus while hotter regions are at lesser risk.

Below is the thread of the chat as extracted:

Hello everyone,

Do join me in welcoming our today’s twitter chat guest, @TWawu, a lecturer with Department of Geography, SCOE who is going to discuss on the Relationship between Covid19 and Weather. Welcome ir

 

Thank you

My Name is Tajuddeen Idris Wawo from Saadatu Rimi College of Education Kano department of Geography I’m here to discuss on the Topic relationship between Weather and  Coronavirus

 

 

@a_sabo12 @TWawu @ICTAdvocates Doc. One of the reasons ppl mentioning on low effect of Covid 19 in African Countries is hot weather. What is the real fact on this? @hamzaish

 

This is very true because African countries lies very close to equator and receive high amount of sunshine which makes the temperature to be high

 

Weather has some important components such as follows

a Elements of Weather

b Factors of Weather and Climate

1. Weather and Climate regions in the world

These are some of the important sub topics which comprises weather and Climate

 

Sir @TWawu Will warm weather really kill off Covid-19?

 

Of course yes because we Africans lives in Tropical regions which have high temperature

 

 

There are six weather regions of the world

Tropical regions

Temperate regions

Mediterranean regions

Arid regions

Polar regions

Continental regins

 

Dr, @TWawu Pls, will climate change make the COVID-19 pandemic worse or not?

 

Tropical regions are xterised with high temperature

Temperate regions are xterised wit mild temperature

Polar regions are xterised with ice

Arid means desert region

 

@TWawu is there any relationship between Temperature vs. Case Numbers

 

 

 

Yes as I explained that Asian Countries like China, India are among the countries having the higher number of infected persons because the have low temperature while African countries have the low number of infected persons because the temperature conditions high

 

 

What is the seasonal bahaviour of diseases?

 

Low temperature contributes to the spread of the visus that is why you see that areas having low temperature experience high number of infected persons while area having high temperature like African countries having low infected persons

 

These are some basic issues about weather while COVID 19 is a pandemic diseases which affects all part of the world

 

 

There is Strong correlation between Weather and COVID 19 Pandemic

 

@TWawu Do weather conditions influence the transmission of the coronavirus?

 

Yes of course the variables of Weather which influences the transmission include Temperature, Wind and Humidity

 

 

#CITADActionAgainstCOVID19

Sir @TWawu, some people are relating #Covid19 resistant of most Africa nations to high temperature. Can you please shade more light on this; whether or not the claim is right.

 

@TWawu it is true that cool weather increases the virus. @ICTAdvocates

 

Yes of course because if you look at the areas having the high number of infected persons you will see that they have low temperature that is why the Virus doesn’t kill and spread much in Africa

 

 

@TWawu @ICTAdvocates @a_sabo12 #CITADagainstCovid19 At this point we come to the end of today’s Twitter chat. With this we are saying BIG THANK you Doctor. We hv short of words to express our gratitude 4 your participation. Happy New Hijri Year 1442.

 

You’re highly welcome I’m ready to give you support and contributions as the need arises.

 

 

Corona virus originates from Wuhan in China this is an area where by the temperature is relatively low and going by what has happened as regard to the number of infected people you will find out that the area having cold temperature eg China, India, USA, Brazil Russia  etc

 

Of course yes because we Africans lives in Tropical regions which have high temperature

 

 

 

 

@TWawu Coronavirus seasonality: Is the spread likely to vary?

as occurs with other respiratory diseases such as influenza.

 

 

Yes of course the variables of Weather which influences the transmission include Temperature, Wind and Humidity

 

Low temperature contributes to the spread of the visus that is why you see that areas having low temperature experience high number of infected persons while area having high temperature like African countries having low infected persons