Abstract
The disastrous effect of novel coronavirus has become a matter of concern for human health since December 2019. To counteract the spread of the disease, the many countries’ governments-imposed movement restrictions in different approaches. Retarding growth in various sectors had turned out to be a negative repercussion of the imposed lockdown. On the contrary, isolation practices became climate favorable. Improved air quality indices have been observed in many regions due to a halt on constant air polluting activities. In this chapter, we present an analysis of variation in air quality indices of different countries: United States, Brazil, India, Australia, China, and Taiwan.
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Chaudhary, A., Gupta, V., Jain, N., Santosh, K.C. (2021). COVID-19 on Air Quality Index (AQI): A Necessary Evil?. In: Santosh, K., Joshi, A. (eds) COVID-19: Prediction, Decision-Making, and its Impacts. Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, vol 60. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9682-7_14
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