Ammonia and PM2.5 Air Pollution in Paris during the 2020 COVID Lockdown

The effect of COVID-19 lockdown on the air environment in India

COVID-19 is a huge tragedy for the world community. Everything in the world is affected due to this pandemic right from economy to resources where the economy of major countries of the world are facing recession and resources are surplus with no takers at all. The measures to contain COVID-19 pandemic include lockdown, social distancing, isolation, and home quarantine. Lockdown adopted by the d...

Relaxed Lockdown in Bangladesh During COVID-19: Should Economy Outweigh Health?

Air pollution and doctors' house calls for respiratory diseases in the Greater Paris area (2000-3).

This study describes the short-term relationships between the daily levels of PM10, PM2.5, NO2 and the number of doctors' house calls for asthma, upper respiratory diseases (URD) and lower respiratory diseases (LRD) in Greater Paris for the years 2000-3. Doctors' house calls are a relevant health indicator for the study of short-term health effects of air pollution. Indeed, it is potentially mo...

Lockdown of an Orthopedic Department During COVID-19 Epidemics, Our Experience in a General Hospital

The COVID-19 disease is rapidly spreading around the world, affecting many countries and their healthcare systems.Like many other countries, Iran is struggling with the current situation. In this article, we aim to share our perspectiveson confronting obstacles mentioned above using appropriate hospital protocols during the COVID-19 crisis.We investigated and compared the numb...

Measurements of air pollution due to the traffic in Bonaparte Street in Paris

The purpose of this article is to show how the dispersion of air pollutants in a street canyon could be evaluated (we take as an example Bonaparte Street in the 6th district of Paris) so as to estimate the pollutants concentrations in all points even if there are no stations of measurement. This study, which was made for Airparif, is based on a three dimensional air dispersion model called MISK...