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. 2020 Oct 20:740:140054.
doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140054. Epub 2020 Jun 6.

COVID-19: Healthy environmental impact for public safety and menaces oil market

Muhammad Bilal Tahir  1 , Amber Batool  2
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COVID-19: Healthy environmental impact for public safety and menaces oil market

Muhammad Bilal Tahir et al. Sci Total Environ. .

Abstract

COVID-19 seems as global emergency, by infectious virus, caused respiratory illness like having symptoms of flue, sickness, headache, and difficulty in breathing. Within months the world has been transformed into new order, thousands of people died and many more are fallen ill due to COVID-19 outbreak. China was the first country to see the outbreak and the first country to control it. However, the disease has broken out in Europe, the Middle East, the United States and other places. The United States has the highest number of cases in the world.

Keywords: COVID-19; Environmental pollution; Oil price; Transportation.

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Declaration of competing interest All authors declare that there is no conflict of interest.

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NASA image showing dramatic decline in pollution level over China amid COVID-19 lockdown (Photograph: Nasa Handout/EPA-copyright- Nasa’s Goddard space flight centre/The Guardian).
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Largest hole in the ozone layer over Arctic is finally closed as announced by the EU's earth monitoring programme (Copyright Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service ECMWF).
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