The nature of cities and the Covid-19 pandemic

KY Lai, C Webster, S Kumari, C Sarkar - Current Opinion in Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
… -2 coronavirus in Wuhan, China late December 2019 and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic
… deaths in 188 countries 1 and poses a major global threat to population health in centuries. …

The COVID-19 pandemic: Impacts on cities and major lessons for urban planning, design, and management

A Sharifi, AR Khavarian-Garmsir - Science of the total environment, 2020 - Elsevier
… and economic activities in cities, they are often hotspots of COVID-19 infections. … COVID-19
on cities. In this study we seek to provide an overview of COVID-19 research related to cities

Impact of lockdown on air quality over major cities across the globe during COVID-19 pandemic

P Kumari, D Toshniwal - Urban climate, 2020 - Elsevier
… Therefore to investigate the global impact of lockdown on air quality during the COVID-19
pandemic, cities from different continents have been selected. In this study, 12 major cities

[HTML][HTML] Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown on air pollution in 20 major cities around the world

F Fu, KL Purvis-Roberts, B Williams - Atmosphere, 2020 - mdpi.com
… The daily median AQI was used in this study for each of 20 major cities. … A significant impact
of the COVID-19 lockdown on air quality was found in 20 major cities, including significant …

Network analysis of population flow among major cities and its influence on COVID-19 transmission in China

J Liu, J Hao, Y Sun, Z Shi - Cities, 2021 - Elsevier
COVID-19 cases in 43 major cities. When Wuhan was quarantined from 23 January 2020,
the cumulative number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in these major citiesCOVID-19 cases (…

Air quality during the COVID-19: PM2. 5 analysis in the 50 most polluted capital cities in the world

D Rodríguez-Urrego, L Rodríguez-Urrego - Environmental Pollution, 2020 - Elsevier
… The figures in this paper show the temporary environmental benefit as a major positive
impact and as a learning model for governments to enable new socio-environmental policies. …

Decline in PM2. 5 concentrations over major cities around the world associated with COVID-19

A Chauhan, RP Singh - Environmental research, 2020 - Elsevier
… the spread of COVID-19. The … major cities (New York, Los Angeles, Zaragoza, Rome, Dubai,
Delhi, Mumbai, Beijing and Shanghai) around the world suffered severely with the COVID-19

Lockdown caused by COVID-19 pandemic reduces air pollution in cities worldwide

AM Shrestha, UB Shrestha, R Sharma, S Bhattarai… - 2020 - eartharxiv.org
… We selected 40 major cities around the world (Figure 1) based on (i) the historical level of …
in the city (a mix of cities with dirty and clean air), (ii) reported COVID-19 cases in that city (a …

COVID-19 pandemic: An outlook on its impact on air quality and its association with environmental variables in major cities of Punjab and Chandigarh, India

PK Sahoo, AK Chauhan, S Mangla… - Environmental …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
… confirmed cases with meteorological parameters and criteria pollutants in the major cities
of … that the COVID-19 lockdown has drastically improved the quality of air in major cities of …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of environmental factors on COVID-19 cases and mortalities in major cities of Pakistan

R Basray, A Malik, W Waqar, A Chaudhry… - Journal of Biosafety and …, 2021 - Elsevier
… This study signifies the effect of climate factors on COVID-19 incidence and mortality rate,
but … the COVID-19 incidence, mortality ratesand meteorological factors among major cities in …