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Review
. 2020 Dec:267:115621.
doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2020.115621. Epub 2020 Sep 9.

Environmental impacts on the transmission and evolution of COVID-19 combing the knowledge of pathogenic respiratory coronaviruses

Jing Zhan  1 , Qian S Liu  2 , Zhendong Sun  1 , Qunfang Zhou  3 , Ligang Hu  1 , Guangbo Qu  3 , Jianqing Zhang  4 , Bin Zhao  3 , Guibin Jiang  3
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Review

Environmental impacts on the transmission and evolution of COVID-19 combing the knowledge of pathogenic respiratory coronaviruses

Jing Zhan et al. Environ Pollut. 2020 Dec.

Abstract

The emergence of a novel coronavirus named SARS-CoV-2 during December 2019, has caused the global outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which is officially announced to be a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO). The increasing burden from this pandemic is seriously affecting everyone's life, and threating the global public health. Understanding the transmission, survival, and evolution of the virus in the environment will assist in the prevention, control, treatment, and eradication of its infection. Herein, we aimed to elucidate the environmental impacts on the transmission and evolution of SARS-CoV-2, based on briefly introducing this respiratory virus. Future research objectives for the prevention and control of these contagious viruses and their related diseases are highlighted from the perspective of environmental science. This review should be of great help to prevent and control the epidemics caused by emerging respiratory coronaviruses (CoVs).

Keywords: COVID-19; Environmental impact; Evolution; SARS-CoV-2; Transmission route.

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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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