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Effect of Sunlight on SARS-CoV-2: Enlightening or Lighting?

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    • Hasham Hussain 1
    • Shoaib Ahmad 2
    • Christos Tsagkaris 3
    • Zoha Asghar 4
    • Abdullahi Tunde Aborode 5
    • Mohammad Yasir Essar 6
    • Anastasiia Dmytrivna Shkodina 7
    • Ajagbe Abayomi Oyeyemi 8
    • Shahzaib Ahmed 9
    • Mohammad Amjad Kamal 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15

    1 House Officer, Allied Hospital, Faisalabad, Pakistan

    2 Punjab medical college, Faisalabad, Pakistan

    3 University of Crete, Faculty of Medicine, Heraklion, Greece

    4 Ziauddin University, Karachi, Pakistan

    5 Healthy Africans Platform, Research and Development, Ibadan, Nigeria and Oli Health Magazine Organization, Research and Development, Kigali, Rwand

    6 Medical Research Center, Kateb University, Kabul, Afghanistan and Kabul University of Medical Sciences, Kabul, Afghanistan

    7 Poltava State Medical University, Poltava, Ukraine

    8 Department of Anatomy, Nile University of Nigeria, Abuja, Nigeria

    9 Punjab group of colleges, Toba Tek Singh, Pakistan

    10 West China School of Nursing / Institutes for Systems Genetics, Frontiers Science Center for Disease-related Molecular

    11 Network, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

    12 King Fahd Medica

    13 Research Center, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

    14 Enzymoics, Hebersham, NSW;

    15 Novel Global Community Educational Foundation, Australia

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Document Type : Review Article

10.33844/cjm.2021.60498
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Abstract

In the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, many researchers have investigated non
pharmaceutical interventions for restricting the transmission of severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), including sunlight. Regarding the lack of effective
medicines for SARS-CoV-2, the scientific community works to evaluate the effects of physical
features of sunlight such as electromagnetic radiation and thermal energy on viral strains.
Sunlight gained a considerable amount of attention, including an infamous mention in the
White House. Since then, little has become known about further research on the effect of
sunlight on SARS-CoV-2. Existing evidence focuses on germicidal wavelengths of the
Ultraviolet (UV) and the stimulation of vitamin D production. UV radiation types B and C
have a high germicidal capacity but are blocked by the atmosphere due to their harmful effect
on living species. UV radiation type A, which reaches the surface of the earth, has a quite
lower germicidal potential. The contribution of vitamin D in the immune response against
COVID-19 is yet to be discussed. With the third spike of the pandemic affecting more and
more countries worldwide, understanding the effect of sunlight on COVID-19 can help public
health officials to design their action plans. At the same time, shedding light on this matter
will contribute to debunking popular myths circulating since the onset of the pandemic and
draw a clear line between health literacy and misinformation.

Keywords

  • Sunlight
  • COVID-19
  • SARSCoV-2
  • Pandemic
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Canadian Journal of Medicine
Volume 3, Issue 1
February 2021
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APA

Hussain, H. , Ahmad, S. , Tsagkaris, C. , Asghar, Z. , Tunde Aborode, A. , Yasir Essar, M. , Dmytrivna Shkodina, A. , Abayomi Oyeyemi, A. , Ahmed, S. and Amjad Kamal, M. (2021). Effect of Sunlight on SARS-CoV-2: Enlightening or Lighting?. Canadian Journal of Medicine, 3(1), 6-9. doi: 10.33844/cjm.2021.60498

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Hussain, H. , , Ahmad, S. , , Tsagkaris, C. , , Asghar, Z. , , Tunde Aborode, A. , , Yasir Essar, M. , , Dmytrivna Shkodina, A. , , Abayomi Oyeyemi, A. , , Ahmed, S. , and Amjad Kamal, M. . "Effect of Sunlight on SARS-CoV-2: Enlightening or Lighting?", Canadian Journal of Medicine, 3, 1, 2021, 6-9. doi: 10.33844/cjm.2021.60498

HARVARD

Hussain, H., Ahmad, S., Tsagkaris, C., Asghar, Z., Tunde Aborode, A., Yasir Essar, M., Dmytrivna Shkodina, A., Abayomi Oyeyemi, A., Ahmed, S., Amjad Kamal, M. (2021). 'Effect of Sunlight on SARS-CoV-2: Enlightening or Lighting?', Canadian Journal of Medicine, 3(1), pp. 6-9. doi: 10.33844/cjm.2021.60498

CHICAGO

H. Hussain , S. Ahmad , C. Tsagkaris , Z. Asghar , A. Tunde Aborode , M. Yasir Essar , A. Dmytrivna Shkodina , A. Abayomi Oyeyemi , S. Ahmed and M. Amjad Kamal, "Effect of Sunlight on SARS-CoV-2: Enlightening or Lighting?," Canadian Journal of Medicine, 3 1 (2021): 6-9, doi: 10.33844/cjm.2021.60498

VANCOUVER

Hussain, H., Ahmad, S., Tsagkaris, C., Asghar, Z., Tunde Aborode, A., Yasir Essar, M., Dmytrivna Shkodina, A., Abayomi Oyeyemi, A., Ahmed, S., Amjad Kamal, M. Effect of Sunlight on SARS-CoV-2: Enlightening or Lighting?. Canadian Journal of Medicine, 2021; 3(1): 6-9. doi: 10.33844/cjm.2021.60498

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