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Nurture to nature via COVID-19, a self-regenerating environmental strategy of environment in global context

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Highlights

  • Social lockdown is the only preventive measure exist against Coronavirus (CoV-19).

  • Lockdown found to reduce water and air pollution including CO2 and NO2 emissions.

  • Temperature has negative correlation with growth and propagation of CoV-19.

  • Use of mask and alcoholic based standard sterilisers are recommended.

  • Mutation in CoV-19 seems a natural selection by nature to self-nurture.

Abstract

Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) has become the largest pandemic that has affected 210 countries. Rolling data indicate that 257,3605 people are infected by the disease, from which 701,838 have recovered and 178,562 have died. No specific medicine or vaccine is available yet to control the disease, hence, social distancing via lockdown is widely adopted as the only preventive measure. Social distancing is observed at different level of strictness in different counties but it almost made the world to stands still. Although scientific articles on this largest social move are scanty, it resulted in benefiting the deteriorated environment to revive back. Many environmental indices such as lowering NO2 and CO2 emissions and reduction in particulate matters in air as a result of less human activities have led to clean air and pollution free water in many countries. Undoubtedly, the world was experiencing pollution in several countries due to mainly human activities including urbanization, industrialization, fossil fuel exhaustion etc. Under such situation a special (natural) a protective measure was awaited to fix environmental issues. Probably, the lockdown is one of the natural effects expected by nature via introduction of COVID-19. It is because, introduction of COVID-19 to nature was an outcome of mutation from two of its pre-existing forms, although, debate on it is still continuing. Viability of CoV-19 virus found to have a lot of correlation with aquatic and terrestrial environmental parameters such as pH, surface type, temperature etc. Air pollution is found to increase the risk of COVID-19 infection, therefore, use of mask and alcohols based standard sterilisers is strongly recommended. However, the self-revival rate of nature shall continue during post-lockdown period and a master plan must be adapted by national and international (mostly political) bodies to revive the Mother Nature completely.

Keywords

COVID-19
CO2 and NO2 emissions
Environmental regeneration
Pollution and wildlife
Self nurturing nature
Social lockdown

Abbreviation

ACE2
Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2 (ACE2)
AQI
air quality index
PM
particulate matter
BBC
British Broadcasting Corporation
CO2
Carbon dioxide
NO2
Nitrogen oxide
CDC
Centres for Disease Control and Prevention
CoV
Coronavirus
COVID-19
Coronavirus diseas-19
CREA
Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air
ESA
European Space Agency
FDA
Food and Drug Administration
HIV
Human Immune Deficiency Virus
MERS
Middle East respiratory syndrome
NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NIH
National Institutes of Health
SARS
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
SARS-CoV-2
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2
PM2.5 and PM10
particulate matter with fine and coarse particles with a diameter between 2.5 and 10 μm, respectively.

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