“…As a result, a number of environmental and anthropogenic factors were identified as potential drivers. Namely clinical-epidemiological conditions (Bai et al, 2020;Guan et al, 2020), climatic conditions (Chan et al, 2011;Paez et al, 2020;Quilodrán et al, 2020), socioeconomic and demographic structure (Laires and Nunes, 2020;Maroko et al, 2020;Marques, 2020;Murgante et al, 2020;Roy et al, 2020;Prazeres et al, 2021) and human mobility patterns (Chen et al, 2020;Melo et al, 2020;Orea and Álvarez, 2020;Tamagusko and Ferreira, 2020). These associations provide information on possible mechanisms by which the spread or impact of COVID-19 is hampered or magnified, in turn assisting the design of preventive or mitigation measures.…”