ABSTRACT
The situation in the world of pandemics is rapidly changing, and the COVID-19 has put a lot of pressure on the government and private sector, who are primarily responsible for controlling the situation. COVID-19 positive cases have increased in 2021 relative to 2020, and the number of patients admitted to hospitals has also increased, despite the fact that few of them were denied admission due to shortage of beds. Normal people who experience any symptoms immediately isolate themselves and begin taking the COVID medications prescribed by medical personnel and their team. During these times, all domestic people tossed the wrappers and boxes of medicines into the regular trash can, and the waste was handed over to the waste collector, who treated it like any other domestic waste and disposed of it using open dumping or other methods. The objective of this perspective is to suggest the collection of these types of waste from domestics, and protect the natural resources like water, soil, and even living beings including animals from pollution (from the effect of SARS-CoV-2). One of the developing nation's hospitals (Indian hospitals) generates 136.89 tons of BMWs every day. During a pandemic, a considerable amount of medical waste is generated from households. The main challenge for environmental waste management agencies is determining who is affected by COVID or viruses and which houses generate these types of waste;thus, the proposed strategy of collecting medical waste separately would be beneficial to the long-term sustainability of natural resources and animals.
ABSTRACT
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been declared officially as the pandemic worldwide. This novel coronavirus affects almost the whole world and it can quickly spread among the population in several ways. This has initially come from China and within a few months, covers the overall world. Therefore, many countries have decided to restrict the movement through lockdown to control the spreading of COVID-19 novel virus among the population. During this lockdown condition, almost all except few essential people stay at home means staying inside of houses 24 × 7 hours. The study aims to calculate the impact of this lockdown condition on the annual natural gamma radiation dose. The values of indoor gamma radiation are not the same as the outdoor gamma dose rate;the ration between indoor and outdoor gamma dose rates varies based on country to country. In this study, we have used indoor-outdoor gamma dose rate ratio which was reported by UNSCEAR (United Nations Scientific Commission on Effects of Atomic Radiation) and calculated the variation of annual dose rate during this pandemic condition that will be helpful for estimation of gamma expose scale for this year of various countries. The higher ratio of indoor and outdoor gamma dose rates showed a high variation in annual dose rate. It was found that the change in annual dose rate continuously increases with respect to the number of days of lockdown. This will also affect much more at high background radiation areas as compared to the low background area.
ABSTRACT
On a global scale, the Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) is having a direct and indirect effect on human lives, socioeconomic conditions, and the natural environment. The measures are taken to prevent the spread of coronavirus and slowdown of economic activities could have major short and long term effects on the natural ecosystem and climate in the coming days. Based on the current scientific studies, the present perspective intends to examine the possible direct and indirect impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the ecosystem particularly on medicinal plants. The natural compounds obtained from medicinal plants and herbal formulations provide rich sources of novel effective measures to control viral infections. The unpredictable COVID situation has affected the environment based on several aspects which may play a key role in impact on plants. The positive perspectives of the world pandemic are a significant improvement in quality of air, reduced carbon emission, increased water purity and reduction in other types of pollution. But at the same time, the negative consequences are much more, which mainly includes increased consumption of preventive medical equipment and medical wastes due to treatment and human immortality, which is continuously endangering the medicinal plants. These wastes may affect the natural cycling process and the natural habitat of the medicinal plants which are a promising solution for the prevention of viral diseases in the years to come. Hence, this perspective will be beneficial for the possible research studies and proper implementation of the strategies that might be support the global climate sustainability.
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The study aimed to determine the impact of COVID-19 on values of annual effective dose equivalent of the natural gamma dose rate of Balod, Durg and Bemetara districts of Chhattisgarh (India). COVID-19 is a severe problem for many countries and to control and prevent the spread of this problem, the lockdown approach has been implemented in many countries, including India. In this lockdown situation, almost all people stay at home for 24 h. Due to the present status of COVID-19, the Indian government also fixed the 67 days lockdown and one day was already successfully done as Janta Curfew, which worked the same as a lockdown. The value of indoor gamma dose rates was reported to be higher in most places compared to the outdoor gamma dose rate, but in this pandemic situation, occupancy factor values are not applicable as recommended by UNSCEAR for calculation of annual effective dose equivalent (AEDE). Therefore, the present study introduces the new equations, which can measure the extra AEDE value during lockdown for adults, children and infants.
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The months from March to June refer as water crisis months in many places of India, because in these months of summer generally, Indian people face shortage of water. In the summer season, groundwater level decreases due to high temperature and increased evaporation of water in most of the places. This present discussion is focused on one positive aspect during the COVID-19 pandemic, which is related to rainfall during this summer in India. It has been observed that the rainfall in India in the months of March to May (as of now, on May 18, 2020) is high as compared to previous years and it might increase the groundwater level and people of India would not face a water crisis during this summer.
ABSTRACT
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been declared officially as the pandemic worldwide. This novel coronavirus affects almost the whole world and it can quickly spread among the population in several ways. This has initially come from China and within a few months, covers the overall world. Therefore, many countries have decided to restrict the movement through lockdown to control the spreading of COVID-19 novel virus among the population. During this lockdown condition, almost all except few essential people stay at home means staying inside of houses 24 × 7 hours. The study aims to calculate the impact of this lockdown condition on the annual natural gamma radiation dose. The values of indoor gamma radiation are not the same as the outdoor gamma dose rate;the ration between indoor and outdoor gamma dose rates varies based on country to country. In this study, we have used indoor-outdoor gamma dose rate ratio which was reported by UNSCEAR (United Nations Scientific Commission on Effects of Atomic Radiation) and calculated the variation of annual dose rate during this pandemic condition that will be helpful for estimation of gamma expose scale for this year of various countries. The higher ratio of indoor and outdoor gamma dose rates showed a high variation in annual dose rate. It was found that the change in annual dose rate continuously increases with respect to the number of days of lockdown. This will also affect much more at high background radiation areas as compared to the low background area.