Positive Impact of Environmental Health: During COVID-19 Lockdown Period

H Paramesh

Abstract

World Health Organisation office in china received the first report that, there is pneumonia with unknown cause in Wuhan, China on 31st Dec 2019. On 30th Jan 2020 WHO declared the outbreak of Corona virus as a Public Health emergency of international concern by the director general Dr.Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus This COVID-19 disease pandemic had created an unparallel disaster in the history of humankind in various ways. It has spread its tentacles globally in a rapid way causing tremendous morbidity and mortality. It has created such an impact that the most powerful nations have come down on their knees, horroundous psycho socio economic burden by closing of various industries, education institutions ,construction work, labour migration, social disturbances and stress on agriculture etc. To manage this and to prevent the spread of the disease, lock down of the areas with the disease has brought in. In over one month period of lock down of activities we are experiencing the positive effects on environmental health where mother earth is clearing the mess created by human. We have observed the following changes in the environment.

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