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RSS FeedsAir Pollution: Locked Down by COVID-19 but Not Arrested
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2 july 2020 18:40:02

 
Air Pollution: Locked Down by COVID-19 but Not Arrested
(WorldNews Environment)
 


Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, one of the most serious global crises of our time, many countries had come to see air pollution as a major health issue. The State of Global Air/2019 report noted that air pollution was the fifth leading risk factor for mortality worldwide in 2017, with ambient air pollution contributing to around 5 million deaths globally - or one in 10 deaths. The report found that more people were dying from air pollution-related diseases than from traffic accidents or malaria. The lockdown to contain the spread of the virus has severely restricted economic activity, and reports are emerging from across the globe of blue skies becoming visible, in some cases for the...


 
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