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Members of high-risk groups could protect themselves by watching pollen forecasts and wearing dust filter masks.
Every year, from February to April, we see many people around us sniffling, coughing and walking around with red eyes. This is not surprising because these months see the highest number of allergic cases. Besides other pollutants, the concentration of airborne pollen is also the highest during these months. Now a new study says that the levels of airborne pollen in the atmosphere has a direct relationship with COVID-19. Higher levels mean increased SARS-CoV-2 infection rates, reveal a large-scale study conducted by an international team headed by researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Helmholtz Zentrum München. Pollen is a significant environmental factor influencing infection rates, they say. Last year, around this time, the outbreak of the current global COVID-19 pandemic seemed to coincide with the tree pollen season in the northern hemisphere. These observations prompted an international team of researchers to conduct an extensive investigation because the scientists wanted to know whether there is a demonstrable link between airborne pollen concentrations and SARS-CoV-2 infection rates.

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