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COVID-19 Outbreak and Its Effect on Global Environment Sustainable System: Recommendation and Future Challenges

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The Global Environmental Effects During and Beyond COVID-19

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Abstract

Long-standing exposure to concentrations of air pollutants is known to cause the inflammation of the lungs chronic, a state that might enable the increased severity of new coronavirus-induced COVID-19 pandemic called (SARS-CoV-2), which is the main cause of the epidemic recently confirmed by the World Health Organization (WHO). In recent times, the infectious disease caused by the new coronavirus began in China. COVID-19 has rapidly spread worldwide, presenting the entire human population with immense health, economic, environmental, and social challenges. Owing to the pandemic of COVID-19, Since mid-March 2020, human activities have been increasingly limited in many nations, and this is a radical experiment to show the efficacy of restricted pollution. Air contaminants’ Impact as delicate (PM2.5) particulate matter, NO2, SO2, CO, and excess fatalities within the half-moon of 2020 are studied in this chapter. Besides, we present a future planning strategy to fight the COVID-19 pandemic resulted from pollution using Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools. Furthermore, in this chapter, we study the influence of the immediate organized processes realized by Egypt’s government due to the recent COVID-19 pandemic with a straight affect on the air quality improvement.

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  1. Department of Environmental Studies, Institute of Graduate Studies and Research, Alexandria University, 163 Horreya Avenue, El-Shatby, P.O. Box 832, Alexandria, Egypt

    Amira S. Mahmoud

  2. Department of Machine Learning and Information Retrieval, Faculty of Artificial Intelligence, Kafrelsheikh University, Kafr El Sheikh, 33511, Egypt

    Mahmoud Y. Shams

  3. Faculty of Computer and Artificial Intelligence, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

    Aboul Ella Hassanien

  4. Scientific Research Group in Egypt (SRGE), Cairo, Egypt

    Amira S. Mahmoud, Mahmoud Y. Shams & Aboul Ella Hassanien

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Mahmoud, A.S., Shams, M.Y., Hassanien, A.E. (2021). COVID-19 Outbreak and Its Effect on Global Environment Sustainable System: Recommendation and Future Challenges. In: Hassanien, A.E., Darwish, A., Gyampoh, B., Abdel-Monaim, A.T., Anter, A.M. (eds) The Global Environmental Effects During and Beyond COVID-19. Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, vol 369. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72933-2_11

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