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Air Qual Atmos Health. 2021 Feb 04;1-9. doi: 10.1007/s11869-021-00990-3. Epub 2021 Feb 04.

Effects of COVID-19 pandemic control measures on air pollution in Lima metropolitan area, Peru in South America.

Air quality, atmosphere, & health

Jhojan P Rojas, Francesco R Urdanivia, Roy A Garay, Alan J García, Carlos Enciso, Elvis A Medina, Richard A Toro, Carlos Manzano, Manuel A Leiva-Guzmán

Affiliations

  1. Servicio Nacional de Meteorología E Hidrología, Lima, Peru.
  2. Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile.
  3. School of Public Health, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA USA.

PMID: 33558824 PMCID: PMC7859720 DOI: 10.1007/s11869-021-00990-3

Abstract

The sanitary measures implemented to control and prevent an increase in infections due to the COVID-19 pandemic have produced an improvement in the air quality of many urban areas around the world. We assessed air quality during the COVID-19 pandemic for particulate matter (PM

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11869-021-00990-3.

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Keywords: Air pollution; COVID-19; Decline; Lima; Lockdown; Megacity; Peru

Conflict of interest statement

Competing interestThe authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could appear to influence the work reported in this paper.

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