Journal
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
Volume 280, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.111700
Keywords
COVID-19; Air pollution; Socio-economic aspects; Wastewater surveillance; Solid waste management
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- Department of Biotechnology -GoI [BT/RLF/Re-entry/12/2016]
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The COVID-19 pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 has had significant impacts on public health, environment, and socio-economic factors globally. Research shows a decrease in air pollutants with the pandemic, but high pollution cities experienced higher mortality rates in COVID-19 affected areas. Additionally, the use of health safety equipment and work-from-home policies have affected solid and hazardous waste management services.
The COVID-19 pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 has emerged as a global issue of concern for public health, environment and socio-economic setup. This review addresses several aspects of epidemiology, and pathogenesis, environmental resource quality (air quality, hazardous waste management, and wastewater surveillance issues), and socio-economic issues worldwide. The accelerated research activity in the development of diagnostic kits for SARS-CoV-2 is in progress for the rapid sequencing of various strains of SARS-CoV-2. A notable reduction in air pollutants (NO2 and PM2.5) has been observed worldwide, but high air polluted cities showed intense mortalities in COVID-19 affected areas. The use of health safety equipment halted transportation, and work-from-home policy drastically impacted the quantity of solid and hazardous wastes management services. Wastewater appeared as another mode of enteric transmission of SARS-CoV-2. Thus, wastewater-based surveillance could act as a mode of the data source to track the virus's community spread. The pandemic also had a substantial socio-economic impact (health budget, industrial manufacturing, job loss, and unemployment) and further aggravated the countries' economic burden.
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