Effects of COVID-19 on the environment: an overview on air, water, wastewater, and solid waste

K Elsaid, V Olabi, ET Sayed, T Wilberforce… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic has hit the world hardly as of the beginning of 2020 and quickly
spread worldwide from its first-reported point in early Dec. 2019. By mid-March 2021, the …

Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on air quality: a systematic review

ACT Silva, PTBS Branco, SIV Sousa - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
With the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, several governments imposed severe
restrictions on socio-economic activities, putting most of the world population into a general …

Positive effects of COVID-19 lockdown on air quality of industrial cities (Ankleshwar and Vapi) of Western India

R Nigam, K Pandya, AJ Luis, R Sengupta, M Kotha - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract On January 30, 2020, India recorded its first COVID-19 positive case in Kerala,
which was followed by a nationwide lockdown extended in four different phases from 25th …

Assessing the ambient air quality patterns associated to the COVID-19 outbreak in the Yangtze River Delta: A random forest approach

A Hasnain, Y Sheng, MZ Hashmi, UA Bhatti, Z Ahmed… - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The novel coronavirus (COVID-19), first identified at the end of December 2019, has
significant impacts on all aspects of human society. In this study, we aimed to assess the …

Changes of air pollution between countries because of lockdowns to face COVID-19 pandemic

AP Akan, M Coccia - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
The goal of this study is to analyze how levels of air pollution changed between countries
with their restriction policy of lockdown to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic. The study …

COVID-19 lockdown and its impact on tropospheric NO2 concentrations over India using satellite-based data

A Biswal, T Singh, V Singh, K Ravindra, S Mor - Heliyon, 2020 - cell.com
Abstract The World Health Organization has declared the COVID-19 pandemic a global
public health emergency. Many countries of the world, including India, closed their borders …

Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on ambient air quality in megacities of India and implication for air pollution control strategies

K Ravindra, T Singh, A Biswal, V Singh… - Environmental Science and …, 2021 - Springer
The impact of restrictions during various phases of COVID-19 lockdown on daily mean PM
2.5 concentration in five Indian megacities (New Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, and …