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. 2020 Nov 10:742:140557.
doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140557. Epub 2020 Jun 27.

Can PM2.5 pollution worsen the death rate due to COVID-19 in India and Pakistan?

Khalid Mehmood  1 , Saifullah  2 , Muhammad Mohsin Abrar  3 , Muhammad Iqbal  4 , Ehtesham Haider  5 , Hafiz Muhammad Hassan Shoukat  6
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Can PM2.5 pollution worsen the death rate due to COVID-19 in India and Pakistan?

Khalid Mehmood et al. Sci Total Environ. .
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Keywords: COVID-19; PM2.5.

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Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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