The COVID-19 pandemic daily claims tens of thousands of human lives and destabilizes the global economic situation, therefore, investigating patterns of the influence of external conditions on the morbidity trends won't lose its relevance for a long time.
When discussing the influence of the air condition on the COVID-19 dynamics, first of all, we talk about the temperature of ambient air, the relative and absolute humidity, the level of ultraviolet radiation and atmospheric pressure. The wind speed remains somewhere in the background, although this parameter of the atmosphere is present in almost all archives of meteorological stations, even in the most remote corners of the planet, i.e. it is "within easy reach".
Not always, not everyone and not everywhere noted the influence of wind speed on the COVID-19 dynamics, or this influence was recognized as not worthy of attention.
Islam N et al. (University of Cambridge, UK, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA), studying the problem of atmospheric influence on the dynamics of COVID-19, using data from 206 countries, found no connection between COVID-19 and wind speed [1]. Neither did Jinhua Pan et al. (Fudan University, China) find any connection between morbidity and wind speed in the eight countries they had studied [2]. There was no connection between the number of incidents of SARSCoV-2 and wind speed recorded in Australia by Michael P. Ward et al. (University of Sydney, Australia) [3]. Similar results were obtained in New York by Muhammad Farhan Bashir et al. (Central South University, China) [4] and in West Java and Indonesia by Ramadhan Tosepu et al. [5].
Soumyabrata Bhattacharjee (Assam Royal Global University, India) was able to detect only a very insignificant connection of new COVID-19 cases with wind speed in the most affected provinces of China and Italy [6]. A very weak correlation was found by Moges Massey et al. (University of South-Eastern Norway) in the capital of Norway [7], Massimiliano Fazzini et al. (University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy) in Lombardy (Northern Italy), where the world's largest official mortality rate due to the COVID-19 pandemic was recorded [8], and Kousik Das et al. (Vidyasagar University, India) in India [9].