Lockdown for CoViD-2019 in Milan: What are the effects on air quality?

ABSTRACT: Based on the rapid spread of the CoViD-2019, a lockdown was declared in the whole Northern Italy by the Government. The application of increasingly rigorous containment measures allowed to reduce the impact of the CoViD-2019 pandemic on the Italian National Health System but at the same time these restriction measures gave also the opportunity to assess the effect of anthropogenic activities on air pollutants in an unprecedented way. This paper aims to study the impact of the partial and total lockdown (PL and TL, respectively) on air quality in the Metropolitan City of Milan. As results, the severe limitation of people movements following the PL and the subsequent TL determined a significant reduction of pollutants concentration mainly due to vehicular traffic (PM₁₀, PM_2.5

SUBMITTER: Collivignarelli MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7205654 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature