COVID-19: PART 01

Was expecting a Vacation,

Turned out differently,

Unexpected stuffs began,

Redefining an alarming destiny.

Birth of a Virus,

For destruction or for being curious,

Testing on animal,

Evolved a Curse on Humanity.

Out with an unfathomable rate,

The Virus showed its colors,

World Economy at Stake,

Death rates a Sudden Shake.

Dealing with this Pandemic,

Struggling in Lockdown,

We have learnt to stand up,

No matter how many times we fall.

Hello and Welcome Back Readers!!! Hope you all are safe and sound these days. As we all know, the situations around us are a bit quirky where we can’t expect what next. But this is the time where we can take care of ourselves and our family and stay in touch with our loved ones. So today we will be talking about some points related to this pandemic so this can be part1 of the Series which includes many brighter and darker sides of this pandemic. In this post, we will have a sneak peek into the Reduced Air Pollution and Improved Air Quality.

As the Novel coronavirus strikes and make every attempt to tear around the world, it’s exploiting our biggest weaknesses, from creaking health care systems to extreme social inequality. It has held its relationship with one pervasive and neglected problem, however, is more tangled: Air pollution has intensified the pandemic, but the pandemic has—temporarily—cleaned the skies.

When researched and analyzed about new evidence emerged that dirty air makes COVID-19 more lethal, it surprised no one who has followed the science of air pollution—but the scalability of this sheer negligence and ignorance of the effect was striking. “If you’re getting COVID, and you have been breathing polluted air, it’s really putting gasoline on a fire,” said Francesca Dominici, a Harvard biostatistics professor and the study’s senior author. That is because the fine particles penetrate deep into the body causing hypertension, heart attack, higher blood pressure and diabetes and these complications can weaken the immune system and fuel inflammation in lungs and respiratory track.

Cleaner Pandemic Skies :

India’s hastily imposed shutdowns have been devastating, leaving hundreds of thousands of migrant workers without homes or jobs leaving the economy shaken as all the businesses are either shut down or running from Home though some of the manufacturing sector is open now for stabilizing economy but the overall impact is worse. In Delhi, where air is normally choking, levels of both PM2.5 and the harmful gas nitrogen dioxide fell more than 70% making South Delhi experiencing a Clean Air since last 75 years, a study illustrated.

Data from the Central Pollution Control Board of India's Environment Ministry also showed a 71 percent decrease in nitrogen dioxide levels. Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata and Bangalore have also recorded a drop in these air pollutants, according to CNN. "It is true that pollution levels are going down and will continue to be lower as a result of lockdown," Pawan Gupta, senior scientist at the Earth Sciences of Universities Space Research Association at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center issued a statement in an official mail.

Recent heavy rains in the north and west of the country have also helped in lowering the country's pollution levels as Rain is a very effective aerosol removal process and can bring down the microscopic particulate matter level (PM) from the atmosphere.

As the rainy season is sneaking out silently, surely for the next 3 to 4 months, we can expect a lower pollution level. But what after the lockdown ends, are we gonna rush in like we used to ? Surely, we have understood the importance of lower pollution level and we are educated enough to know the health benefits of breathing in pure air, so why not continue the streak. 

With this, we have reached to an end of this post,the content in this post is scripted after referring to the relevant information. Hope you guys like the post, do comment your views and share if you find it worth as the lamp lights another lamp and that is how the whole world gets illuminated !!! Stay tuned for the upcoming posts in this Series. See you there, until Stay Home and Stay Safe. In case we are meeting for the first time, Hii this is Tejas Joshi!!!