Indoor Air Pollution was Nonnegligible during COVID-19 Lockdown
Abstract COVID-19 spread globally in the past months and caused hundreds of thousands of people dead. Many countries took lockdown policy to restrict human activities and industry to slow down the virus spread. The implementation of stringent lockdown resulted in less traffic and industrial emission...
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| description | Abstract COVID-19 spread globally in the past months and caused hundreds of thousands of people dead. Many countries took lockdown policy to restrict human activities and industry to slow down the virus spread. The implementation of stringent lockdown resulted in less traffic and industrial emissions, thus reduction of various ambient air pollutants were observed in urban areas. Considering people stayed longer time in indoor, the indoor air pollution (IAP) might play a more important role for human health during lockdown. People suffered from high possibility of IAP exposure risk increase during lockdown as they almost stayed at home the whole day. Unfortunately, available studies on IAP and its health impact during this period were rare compared with those on ambient air. By this, more investigations should be performed to estimate the impact of global COVID-19 lockdown on human health in the future. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-0cfc1e3f8354404f950aa4ab8ee884da2025-02-09T12:19:33ZengSpringerAerosol and Air Quality Research1680-85842071-14092020-08-012091851185510.4209/aaqr.2020.06.0281Indoor Air Pollution was Nonnegligible during COVID-19 LockdownWei Du0Gehui Wang1Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science of the Ministry of Education, School of Geographic Sciences, East China Normal UniversityKey Laboratory of Geographic Information Science of the Ministry of Education, School of Geographic Sciences, East China Normal UniversityAbstract COVID-19 spread globally in the past months and caused hundreds of thousands of people dead. Many countries took lockdown policy to restrict human activities and industry to slow down the virus spread. The implementation of stringent lockdown resulted in less traffic and industrial emissions, thus reduction of various ambient air pollutants were observed in urban areas. Considering people stayed longer time in indoor, the indoor air pollution (IAP) might play a more important role for human health during lockdown. People suffered from high possibility of IAP exposure risk increase during lockdown as they almost stayed at home the whole day. Unfortunately, available studies on IAP and its health impact during this period were rare compared with those on ambient air. By this, more investigations should be performed to estimate the impact of global COVID-19 lockdown on human health in the future.https://doi.org/10.4209/aaqr.2020.06.0281COVID-19LockdownIndoor air pollution |
| spellingShingle | Wei Du Gehui Wang Indoor Air Pollution was Nonnegligible during COVID-19 Lockdown Aerosol and Air Quality Research COVID-19 Lockdown Indoor air pollution |
| title | Indoor Air Pollution was Nonnegligible during COVID-19 Lockdown |
| title_full | Indoor Air Pollution was Nonnegligible during COVID-19 Lockdown |
| title_fullStr | Indoor Air Pollution was Nonnegligible during COVID-19 Lockdown |
| title_full_unstemmed | Indoor Air Pollution was Nonnegligible during COVID-19 Lockdown |
| title_short | Indoor Air Pollution was Nonnegligible during COVID-19 Lockdown |
| title_sort | indoor air pollution was nonnegligible during covid 19 lockdown |
| topic | COVID-19 Lockdown Indoor air pollution |
| url | https://doi.org/10.4209/aaqr.2020.06.0281 |
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