Table 2.

Spearman’s correlation analysis between the new daily COVID-19 confirmed cases and meteorological parameters at the same time as (0-day lag), 7 days prior (7-day lag), and 14 days prior (14-day lag) to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Daegu, South Korea

	0-day lag	7-day lag	14-day lag
Mean temperature	− 0.400**	− 0.244*	0.567**a
Wind speed	0.595**	− 0.246*	0.233
Relative humidity	− 0.316**	− 0.316**	− 0.090

*Significant at the 0.05 level; **significant at the 0.01 level

^aPearson’s correlation