The COVID-19 Pandemic and Environmental Pollution: Systematic Review

ABSTRACT

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic affected everyone's life in every aspect. World Health Organization declared it as global emergency in March 2020 which leads to halt all the human activity around the world. While this pandemic was hazardous for human beings the nature was nourishing itself and seems to be on reset as the Pollution decreased due to this pandemic. In countries like China, Italy, USA and many more which initiated the lockdown in their countries to avoid the spread of this deadly virus has shown the reduction of air pollution. The emission of air pollutants were reduced due the lockdowns in many countries. In the paper different types of environmental pollution, their reasons and effects on nature are discussed and also the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on environment is discussed. © 2022 American Institute of Physics Inc.. All rights reserved.