Impact of social lockdown due to COVID-19 on environmental and health risk indices in India.

ABSTRACT: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) spread across the globe through the human transmission. The World Health Organization suggested social distancing to curb the community spread. After national social lockdown started in India, air quality improved drastically. This further hypothesized to influence the environment and human health, and this study is positively the first to weigh it using multiple indices. The calculated environmental indices are photochemical ozone creation potential (POCP), acidification potential (AP), and eutrophication potential (EP). The cancer risk, chronic health index (CHI), and acute health index (AHI) were considered to calculate the health risk. The spatial trend change in the air pollution reflecting on these indices are calculated for four Indian megacities Delhi

SUBMITTER: Ambika S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7908889 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature