The Influence of COVID-19 on Air Quality in India: A Boon or Inutile

Corona virus diseases-2019 (COVID-19), an infectious disease identified in late December, 2019, in Wuhan city of China, was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization. Most countries including India have announced some sort of lockdown to reduce the effects of COVID-19 and discontinue the...

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Published inBulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology Vol. 104; no. 6; pp. 724 - 726
Main Author Gautam, Sneha
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Springer US 01.06.2020
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Aeronautics
Aerosols
Aerosols - adverse effects
Air Pollution - adverse effects
Air Pollution - prevention & control
Air Pollution - statistics & numerical data
Air quality
Aquatic Pollution
China
Coronavirus Infections - epidemiology
Coronavirus Infections - prevention & control
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
COVID-19 infection
Disease transmission
Earth and Environmental Science
Ecotoxicology
Environment
Environmental Chemistry
Environmental Health
Humans
India
India - epidemiology
Infectious diseases
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Optical thickness
Orthocoronavirinae
pandemic
Pandemics
Pandemics - prevention & control
Perspective
Pneumonia, Viral - epidemiology
Pneumonia, Viral - prevention & control
Pollution
Soil Science & Conservation
toxicology
Viral diseases
Viruses
Waste Water Technology
Water Management
Water Pollution Control
World Health Organization
India
China
COVID-19
Air quality
Environmental pollution
India
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Summary:Corona virus diseases-2019 (COVID-19), an infectious disease identified in late December, 2019, in Wuhan city of China, was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization. Most countries including India have announced some sort of lockdown to reduce the effects of COVID-19 and discontinue the transmission of novel coronavirus. Major negative effects on the social and surrounding environment have been reported due to COVID-19, however positive effects have also been observed with respect to air quality. Secondary results have been taken from National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), indicating significant reduction (50%) in air quality of Indian region. This perspective highlights the effects of the lockdown due to COVID-19 on aerosol optical thickness specifically in India.
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ISSN:0007-4861
1432-0800
1432-0800
DOI:10.1007/s00128-020-02877-y