Abstract
Since the year 2020, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has emerged as the dominant topic of discussion in the public and research domains. Intensive research has been carried out on several aspects of COVID-19, including vaccines, its transmission mechanism, detection of COVID-19 infection, and its infection rate and factors. The awareness of the public related to the COVID-19 infection factors enables the public to adhere to the standard operating procedures, while a full elucidation on the correlation of different factors to the infection rate facilitates effective measures to minimize the risk of COVID-19 infection by policy makers and enforcers. Hence, this paper aims to provide a comprehensive and analytical review of different factors affecting the COVID-19 infection rate. Furthermore, this review analyses factors which directly and indirectly affect the COVID-19 infection risk, such as physical distance, ventilation, face masks, meteorological factor, socioeconomic factor, vaccination, host factor, SARS-CoV-2 variants, and the availability of COVID-19 testing. Critical analysis was performed for the different factors by providing quantitative and qualitative studies. Lastly, the challenges of correlating each infection risk factor to the predicted risk of COVID-19 infection are discussed, and recommendations for further research works and interventions are outlined.
Keywords: COVID-19; face mask; infection rate; meteorological factor; physical distance; socioeconomic factor; vaccination.
【저자키워드】 COVID-19, vaccination., Meteorological factor, infection rate, Face mask, Socioeconomic factor, physical distance, 【초록키워드】 coronavirus disease, vaccination, Vaccines, Infection, Ventilation, risk, Intervention, Transmission, COVID-19 testing, COVID-19 infection, SARS-CoV-2 variants, Research, Factors, Face masks, infection risk, correlation, Quantitative, mechanism, Analysis, Factor, Topic, domains, measure, dominant, Host, Affect, recommendation, risk of COVID-19, physical, effective, predicted, carried, was performed, facilitate, analysis, affecting, adhere, outlined, 【제목키워드】 review, Factor, Rate,