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Impact on Air Quality of the COVID-19 Lockdown in the Urban Area of Palermo (Italy).

Maria Grazia AlaimoDaniela VarricaM. Vultaggio

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2019-20 coronavirus outbreak010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciencesCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)Urban PopulationHealth Toxicology and MutagenesisPneumonia ViralAir pollutionlcsh:Medicine010501 environmental sciencesUrban areamedicine.disease_cause01 natural sciencesArticleSettore BIO/01 - Botanica GeneralelockdownAir pollutantsEnvironmental healthAir PollutionmedicineHumansAir quality indexPandemics0105 earth and related environmental sciencesgeographygeography.geographical_feature_categorylcsh:RPublic Health Environmental and Occupational HealthOutbreakCOVID-19Particulatesair qualityurban environmentCO–NO2–O3–PM10Settore GEO/08 - Geochimica E VulcanologiaAir quality COVID-19 CO–NO2–O3–PM10 Lockdown Urban environmentItalyQuarantineEnvironmental scienceCoronavirus Infections

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At the end of 2019, the first cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) were reported in Wuhan, China. Thereafter, the number of infected people increased rapidly, and the outbreak turned into a national crisis, with infected individuals all over the country. The COVID-19 global pandemic produced extreme changes in human behavior that affected air quality. Human mobility and production activities decreased significantly, and many regions recorded significant reductions in air pollution. The goal of our investigation was to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on the concentrations of the main air pollutants in the urban area of Palermo (Italy). In this study, the trends in the average concentrations of CO, NO2, O3, and PM10 in the air from 1 January 2020 to 31 July 2020 were compared with the corresponding average values detected at the same monitoring stations in Palermo during the previous five years (2015&ndash

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2020-10-09International journal of environmental research and public health
10.3390/ijerph17207375https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33050278