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

• Published in: Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology Vol. 104; no. 6; pp. 724 - 726
• Main Author: Gautam, Sneha
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• 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

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...