“…Following the same, moving average approach was applied to determine the cumulative lag effect of air pollutants and their association with meteorological factors (Kim et al, 2019;Qiu et al, 2020;Rojas-roa and Rodríguezvillamizar, 2019;Zhang et al, 2020;Zhu et al, 2018Zhu et al, , 2019. So, Generalised additive model (GAM) with Gaussian distribution was utilised to connect the infected rate due to COVID-19 and air pollutants or meteorological parameters (Chuang et al, 2011;Gao et al, 2019;Ravindra et al, 2019;Sun et al, 2015;Tong et al, 2018;Yoon, 2019;Zhang and Batterman, 2010). The model also used to estimate the correlations between moving average concentrations of air pollutants and meteorological factors at Lag0-7, Lag0-14 and Lag0-21 with daily reported COVID-19 infected cases in India (Charles et al, 2020;Ge et al, 2017;Hao et al, 2019;Liang et al, 2020a;Lin et al, 2013;Jiandong Yang et al, 2020).…”