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Factors determining the diffusion of COVID-19 and suggested strategy to prevent future accelerated viral infectivity similar to COVID.

Mario Coccia
- 10 Aug 2020 - 
- Vol. 729, pp 138474-138474
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The findings here suggest that to minimize the impact of future epidemics similar to COVID-19, the max number of days per year in which Italian provincial capitals can exceed the limits set for PM10 or for ozone, considering their meteorological conditions, is about 48 days.
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This article is published in Science of The Total Environment.The article was published on 2020-08-10 and is currently open access. It has received 488 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Airborne transmission.

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Effect of lockdown amid COVID-19 pandemic on air quality of the megacity Delhi, India.

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The COVID-19 pandemic: Impacts on cities and major lessons for urban planning, design, and management

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Spatial analysis and GIS in the study of COVID-19. A review.

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COVID-19 lockdown effects on air quality by NO2 in the cities of Barcelona and Madrid (Spain)

TL;DR: These results allow us to see the limits that can be achieved by implementing low emission zones (LEZ), as well as the amount of contamination that must be eliminated, which in the cases of Madrid and Barcelona, represent 55%.
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