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CLAUDIO REYES
The Harvard research study suggests Covid-19 death rates in the US rose where there was a high concentration of fine particulate matter (PM2.5).
Dr Maria Neira, of the World Health Company (WHO), informed BBC News nations with high pollution levels, lots of in Latin America, Africa and Asia, should ramp up their preparations.
Those with underlying pollution-related conditions have actually developed extreme Covid-19 in countries with high levels.
” We will be doing a map of a lot of contaminated cities based on our database to support nationwide authorities in these regions so that they can prepare their epidemic response strategy appropriately,” Dr Neira said.
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Eduardo Munoz Alvarez
The Harvard research study suggests lower pollution levels in the years before the pandemic might have resulted in a considerable decline in Covid-19 death rates.
A United States research study recommends Covid-19 death rates rise by about 15%in locations with even a small boost in fine-particle contamination levels in the years before the pandemic.
” Patterns in Covid-19 death rates usually simulate patterns in both high population density and high [particulate matter] PM2.5 exposure areas,” the Harvard University report says.
These particles, one-30 th the size of a human hair, have previously been connected to health concerns including respiratory infections and lung cancer.
The Harvard research study has actually not yet been peer examined but Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich chair of epidemiology Air contamination connected to raised Covid-19 death riskProf Annette Peters informed BBC News its findings “are in line with earlier reports on hospitalisation and death due to pneumonia”.
” It is among the very first research studies substantiating our suspicion and the hypothesis that seriousness of the Covid-19 infection might be enhanced by particle matter air contamination,” she stated.
Report author Prof Francesca Dominici said: “We hope it will assist stop the air quality from becoming worse, especially when we are finding out about authorities trying to relax contamination rules in the middle of this pandemic.”
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MARCO BERTORELLO
Another research study suggests a possible link between high levels of air contamination and Covid-19 deaths in northern Italy.
Another research study, at the University of Siena, in Italy, and Arhus University, in Denmark, recommends a possible link in between high levels of air contamination and Covid-19 deaths in northern Italy.
The Lombardy and Emilia Romagna regions had death rates of about 12%, compared with 4.5%in the rest of Italy.
The study, published in Science Direct, says: “The high level of pollution in northern Italy must be thought about an extra co-factor of the high level of lethality recorded in that area.”
Population, age, differing health systems, and a variation in prevention policies throughout regions ought to likewise be taken into consideration.
On The Other Hand, in the Philippines, Cesar Bugaoisan, of the Association for Respiratory Care Practitioners, stated: “In our preliminary data, nearly all of the dead individuals in the nation due to coronavirus had pre-existing conditions, the majority of them connected to air pollution.”
Air contamination currently kills about seven million people every year, the WHO states.
And more than 90%of the world’s population live in locations where air pollution surpasses its guideline limitations, mostly in bad nations.
Much of the afflicted nations are in South Asia, the Middle East, sub-Saharan and North Africa, according to a World Bank report last year.
Cities in Chile, Brazil, Mexico and Peru likewise have unsafe levels of air contamination, according to several WHO and United Nations reports.
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Hindustan Times
India has the most cities with high air contamination levels, the World Air Quality Report says.
But the World Air Quality Report 2019 suggests India has the most cities with high air pollution levels.
India has actually recorded 521 Covid-19 deaths so far.
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Mario Tama
Cities in Chile, Brazil, Mexico and Peru likewise have unsafe levels of air pollution.
The 2002 extreme intense breathing syndrome (Sars) outbreak, triggered by a various strain of coronavirus, infected more than 8,000 individuals, in 26 nations, and eliminated practically 800.
And a 2003 University of California, Los Angeles research study recommended people from areas of high air contamination were more than twice as most likely to pass away from the illness.
