Impact of air pollution on population density: A regression analysis
List of Authors
  • Lee Chin Yee

Keyword
  • air spread virus, density, population

Abstract
  • With the growth of population and migration, the population density is growing. In high population density area, it found that the air spread virus spread rapidly. Covid-19 cases are actively happening in Malaysia and government is implement movement control to avoid the human traffic and reduce the infected case. In metropolis, such as Petaling district with more strata development, it found that the infected cases are higher than other district. Therefore, to study the relationship between air spread virus and density, this paper employed the regression analysis by collected the infected case and death case of Covid-19 from 25/1/2020 to 31/5/2022 as sample for this paper. From the result, it found that there is significant relationship between air spread virus and density. Thus, it is crucial to re-access the current density ratio for future development to prevent the air spread virus.

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