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Review
. 2020 Aug 1:728:138870.
doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138870. Epub 2020 Apr 22.

Environmental perspective of COVID-19

Saeida Saadat  1 , Deepak Rawtani  2 , Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain  3
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Review

Environmental perspective of COVID-19

Saeida Saadat et al. Sci Total Environ. .

Abstract

The outbreak of COVID-19 has caused concerns globally. On 30 January WHO has declared it as a global health emergency. The easy spread of this virus made people to wear a mask as precautionary route, use gloves and hand sanitizer on a daily basis that resulted in generation of a massive amount of medical wastes in the environment. Millions of people have been put on lockdown in order to reduce the transmission of the virus. This epidemic has also changed the people's life style; caused extensive job losses and threatened the sustenance of millions of people, as businesses have shut down to control the spread of virus. All over the world, flights have been canceled and transport systems have been closed. Overall, the economic activities have been stopped and stock markets dropped along with the falling carbon emission. However, the lock down of the COVID-19 pandemic caused the air quality in many cities across the globe to improve and drop in water pollutions in some parts of the world.

Keywords: COVID-19; Environment; Pandemic; Regulations; Socioeconomic.

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Medical wastes generated during COVID-19 pandemic in the environment.
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Comparison of air quality in some of the biggest cities around the world before the COVID-19 pandemic and while the lockdown.
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