Abstract
COVID 19, the virus which originated from a wet market in Wuhan, China. Since its exposure in December, 2019, the virus has spread to almost all the countries in the world, thus turning an epidemic into a pandemic. Although COVID 19 has taken a massive toll on the Human health and global economy, its outbreak has shown positive impacts on the environmental air quality. As the majority of the world is under lock down, the global air pollution has reduced by 40 percent during April 2020. This was identified with the assistance of the data collected from European and American Atmospheric monitoring sites. This article thus summarizes the positive effects of lock down and reduced human mobility, towards the improvement of environmental air quality.
Highlights
In late December 2019, a contagious disease of the family coronavirus was detected in Wuhan, China, which was later named COVID-19
While the whole world was discussing one of the greatest economic falls of all times and the terror of COVID 19, the virus helped the Earth heal itself off the anthropogenic air pollution
COVID 19 had its negative impact on the world economy, its positive effect on the reduced global air pollution cannot be gone unnoticed
Summary
In late December 2019, a contagious disease of the family coronavirus was detected in Wuhan, China, which was later named COVID-19. Most people globally visited the majority of the places in China during the last week of January 2020 as the country celebrated its Lunar new year on 25th January 2020. As of May 5th 2020, COVID 19 has shown its havoc on humanity by infecting 36 million people and taking a death toll of more than 2.5 million and still rising in more than 190 countries [5] These numbers are still rising amidst the lock down that all the nations have applied. Due to this worldwide lockdown, most of the manufacturing sectors and public transportation departments across the globe have been severely affected [6].
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