| |
|
|
Indian Journal of Advances in Chemical Science, Volume: 9,
Issue : 4, December 2021 |
|
|
|
| |
|
ISSN No.: 2320-0898 (Print);
2320-0928 (Electronic)
DOI: 10.22607/IJACS.2021.904005 |
| |
|
Review Article
|
| |
|
|
Investigating the Effect of NO2
and SO2 Levels on Covid-19 Susceptibility: A Case
Study on
Diwali 2020 |
|
|
|
Ancey Abraham*, Insha Abbas, Alfred J. Lawrence, Tahmeena Khan
|
|
ABSTRACT |
|
|
|
COVID-19 being a respiratory trouble is adversely influenced by
increasing air pollution. People with pre-existing medical
conditions, particularly respiratory illness, are prone to the
COVID-19 virus. Ambient air pollution weakens the immune system and
also facilitates the spread of the virus as it gets adsorbed on the
particulate matter. Diwali festivals falling at the onset of winters
have proven to deteriorate the air pollution levels owing to longer
retention time of the pollutants in winters. This study correlates
the SO2 and NO2 measurements with daily COVID-19 deaths during the
first two waves of the pandemic and assesses the air quality
variations monitored during the Diwali period in 2019 and 2020 with
respect to the gaseous pollutants viz NO2 and SO2 in the cities of
Delhi and Lucknow. The AQI values recorded for Diwali 2020 were
observed to be higher than the previous years’ values in general and
no strong correlation was observed to have been established between
the COVID mortality cases and focused gaseous pollutants. |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
Key words: Correlation, COVID-19
mortality, Gaseous pollutants.
. |
|
|
[Download Full Article
PDF] |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
