Erratum: Indicators of Environmental Recovery during the First Lockdown of COVID-19 Pandemic: Is this a Permanent or a Temporary?

Elbasiouny, Heba; Elbehiry, Fathy; Rajput, Vishnu D.; Elramady, Hassan; Eid, Yahya; Hasanuzzaman, Mirza

doi:10.21608/ejss.2022.115881.1485

Erratum: Indicators of Environmental Recovery during the First Lockdown of COVID-19 Pandemic: Is this a Permanent or a Temporary?

Document Type : Review papers

Authors

¹ Department of environmental and biological science, home economy Faculty, Al-Azhar university, Egypt.

² KFS uni

³ Academy of Biology and Biotechnology, Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia

⁴ Kafrelshiekh University

⁵ Poultry Dept., Faculty of Agriculture, Kafrelsheikh University, 33516 Kafr El-Sheikh, Egyp

⁶ Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka-1207, Bangladesh

10.21608/ejss.2022.115881.1485

Abstract

Upon the outbreak and spreading of COVID-19, several reduction measures have been implemented throughout the world to avert the COVID-19 pandemic risks such as entire lockdowns, social distancing, extensive travel bans, mass quarantines, etc. Many positive and negative indicators of this pandemic on the whole environmental compartments have been reported worldwide. These indicators may include promoting the air quality through a reduction in anthropogenic-based emissions (e.g., CO2 and N2O) and increase ozone concentration in addition to energy, water and wastewater, deforestation, and natural resources. This is the difficult equation concerning the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak and its health, societal , economic, and environmental risks and how is the recovery of the environment? Is this recovery will be permanent or temporary? The answer to this question may be emphasized during the outcoming days or months. What will increase this global pandemic aggravation if the COVID-19 has appeared in many types, which enforce us to re-think again concerning the task?

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