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ArticleEnvironmental sustainability (Singapore)2021

COVID-19 pandemic lockdown: effects on the air quality of South Asia.

Ritu Kandari, Ashwani Kumar

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Article in Environmental sustainability (Singapore), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Air Quality, Pollution and Sustainability Trends in South Asia: A Population-Based Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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2 authors.

Ritu KandariIndira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women, Kashmere Gate, New Delhi, India.
Ashwani KumarUniversity School of Basic and Applied Sciences, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Sec 16 C Dwarka, New Delhi, India.ORCID 0000-0002-8166-2115

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The world is facing an unexpected, like never before, situation due to COVID-19. The measures to contain the COVID-19 pandemic are to incorporate lockdown, social distancing, disconnection, and home isolation. Lockdown was enforced by the various governments of the South Asian countries, which include non-working of all the businesses and assembling units, with limited access to the outer world pertaining to essential commodities. However, During the COVID-19 pandemic, an uncommon positive impact is noteworthy for worldwide abatement in air-contamination levels. Principally, specialists have estimated significant improvement in air quality and a remarkable decrease in concentration levels of various harmful gases like sulfur dioxide (SO

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Air qualityCOVID-19LockdownSelf-healing natureSouth asia

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PMID38624635
PMCPMC7859897

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