COVID-19 outbreak: Migration, effects on society, global environment and prevention

• Published in: The Science of the total environment Vol. 728; p. 138882
• Main Authors: Chakraborty, Indranil, Maity, Prasenjit
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands Elsevier B.V 01.08.2020
• Subjects: Betacoronavirus; China; Commerce; Coronavirus Infections - economics; Coronavirus Infections - epidemiology; Coronavirus Infections - prevention & control; COVID-19; COVID-19 infection; Economic; Environment; Global Health; human population; Humans; Pandemics; Pandemics - economics; Pandemics - prevention & control; people; Pneumonia, Viral - economics; Pneumonia, Viral - epidemiology; Pneumonia, Viral - prevention & control; Prevention; respiratory tract diseases; SARS-CoV-2; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; Social Change; society; viruses; World Health Organization; China; COVID-19; Prevention; Global health; Pandemics; Economic

The COVID-19 pandemic is considered as the most crucial global health calamity of the century and the greatest challenge that the humankind faced since the 2nd World War. In December 2019, a new infectious respiratory disease emerged in Wuhan, Hubei province, China and was named by the World Health...