Impact of Lockdown Due to COVID 19 Pandemic on Air Quality of Global Environment

ABSTRACT

In present time countries all over the world are facing lockdown to slow down the transmission of COVID 19, an infectious respiratory disease with human to human transmission. The name COVID 19 represents the disease Corona Virus Disease 2019. The outbreak took place in December 2019 in Wuhan, Hubei province, China. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Corona Virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is known to be accountable for occurrence of this disease. As per the latest report of World Health Organization, a total of 3,588,773 cases has been reported worldwide. It is believed that the number of total cases will increase in coming days which will force countries worldwide to extend lockdown. Due to this throughout the world are following work from home culture, schools and colleges have been shut down. Malls, shopping complexes, amusement parks, multiplexes and all other places of social gatherings are facing closure;peoples worldwide are not allowed to come out of their homes. On road vehicular movements, flights, cruises are at halt. In this research paper an attempt has been made to compare the air quality index during lock down and prelock down period. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.