Economic Production closed down Due to COVID-19 Outbreak

Wuhan

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More than 3,000 people are dead due to the spread of a coronavirus, known as 'Covid-19' and it's being called a global. When this virus was finally took seriously. China, where it all began, moved fast to build a make-shift hospital, quarantine swathes of the population and shut down economic production.

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Satellite imagery generated by NASA and the European Space Agency showed a significant reduction in Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) levels over the city, a drop estimated near 30 percent.

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"That's something we did not expect," Dr Bryan Duncan told TRTWorld. He’s on the research team from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, which released the photos.

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He explained, "Before the [Chinese] Lunar New Year, we saw air pollution levels where they normally are… and then after the Lunar New Year, from the historical record, satellite data, we expected the air pollution, to recover to normal levels, as people returned to work, but in this period, the air pollution levels continued to decrease, for about three weeks after. Witnessing...the reality of the images, it really brings it home how large and wide some of these events are."

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And so it seems, the spread of Covid-19 is pressuring the human race to look at another global calamity: climate change.  

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Currently, the pollutants and chemicals in the air are eating away at our air quality. Heavy amounts of  NO2 are emitted through fossil fuels and contribute to the rising heat of greenhouse gasses, including carbon dioxide. NO2 is not safe for humans to breathe in and damages the atmosphere. The World Health Organization (WHO) says: "Air pollution is the largest single environmental risk for health." 

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With the bombardment of energy production, particularly since the industrial revolution, the rise of emissions and gases has only intensified.

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