Reflections Based on Pollution Changes Brought by COVID-19 Lockdown in Shanghai.

ABSTRACT: COVID-19 and its variants have been changing the world. The spread of variants brings severe effects to the global economy and to human's lives and health, as well as to society. Lockdown is proven to be effective in stopping the spread. It also provides a chance to study natural environmental changes with humanity's limited interference. This paper aims to evaluate the impact of lockdown on five major airborne pollutants, i.e., NO2, SO2, O3, PM2.5 and PM10, in the three different functional regions of Chongming, Xuhui and Jinshan of Shanghai. Changes in the same pollutants from the three regions over the same/different periods were all studied and compared. Overall, the COVID-19 lockdown has changed pollutant concentrations in the long and short terms. Concentrations of four pollutants de

SUBMITTER: Zhang F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8536036 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature