Abstract:

This review study aims at discussing about the linkage between health and the environment. Climate change and the loss of biodiversity can stimulate illnesses to spread. Long-term exposure of air pollutants cause chronic lung and heart diseases that make viruses like COVID-19 even more dangerous. The need for more natural resources has forced humans to encroach on various natural habitats and expose themselves to yet unknown pathogens which is responsible for COVID-19 and other outbreaks. Lockdowns across the world due to prevent the COVID-19 transmission have already resulted in a significant drop in greenhouse gas emissions and pollutants. In China, for instance, the lockdown caused carbon dioxide to drop by at least 25 percent and nitrogen dioxide by 37 percent. It was a systemic review study regarding the relationship between COVID-19 and climate change. We gather total 16 articles and newsletters related to COVID-19 and climate change using different search portal like PubMed, Google Scholar, Nature, and Lancet. After proper review only 12 articles which were related to this study were taken for this systemic review purpose. Although both COVID-19 and climate change have proven to be deadly for humans, governments of different countries haven’t seen them as separate and unconnected phenomena and have therefore responded collectively to them.

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