Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Air Quality: A Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT: With the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, several governments imposed severe restrictions on socio-economic activities, putting most of the world population into a general lockdown in March 2020. Although scattered, studies on this topic worldwide have rapidly emerged in the literature. Hence, this systematic review aimed to identify and discuss the scientifically validated literature that evaluated the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated restrictions on air quality. Thus, a total of 114 studies that quantified the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on air quality through monitoring were selected from three databases. The most evaluated countries were India and China; all the studies intended to evaluate the impact of the pandemic on air quality, mainly concerning PM10, PM2.5, N

SUBMITTER: Silva ACT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8871899 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature