Environmental perspective of COVID-19.
Sci Total Environ
; 728: 138870, 2020 Aug 01.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-102127
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.
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Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Pneumonia, Viral
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Coronavirus Infections
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Environment
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Pandemics
Type of study:
Observational study
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Sci Total Environ
Year:
2020
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
J.scitotenv.2020.138870
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