How COVID-19 is a boon to Earth Health?

We are under lockdown due to COVID-19. People are not going out from almost 60 to 90 days. All these conditions raising questions related to Air Quality or Pollution.

Did pollution really go down due to less mobility in different cities across countries?

I was trying to find the answer to this question and came across mobility dataset, congestion dataset and air pollution dataset which has been made public by Google, Tomtom and Plumelabs. 

In this article, I will present the analysis and link to these datasets. If you want to analyze this information for your city or country you can visit the referred sites in this article.

Google mobility data is available at the following link  - https://www.google.com/covid19/mobility/  The data from India looks like below. 

Mobility has drastically reduced in the last 6o days and if you believe these mobility numbers, it will definitely foretell the future of the country or world economy.

You can download the dataset in a pdf format. You can search your city in the dataset.

There is a definite decrease in footfall outside the residence. The only increase is Residential mobility as we are keeping ourselves inside. Imagine the impact on businesses due to this lockdown. Any bailout will not be sufficient if we analyze these number further. 

But there is also a positive side. 

The environment has been improved a lot. The noise level and air pollution level has been decreased drastically. 

I gather some air pollution stats from https://air.plumelabs.com/en/ for Delhi which is one of the most polluted cities in the world.

You can clearly see the drop in air pollution during the month of March and April. You can also track the live air pollution level on the above site for different cities. I also pulled the weekly trend (as of 19th May 2020 - when Kejriwal removed lockdown). You can clearly see the spike in air pollution in Delhi. 

Last but not least, let us see the public dataset available from TomTom. The data can be accessed on below link - https://www.tomtom.com/en_gb/traffic-index/new-delhi-traffic. Delhi congestion has been reduced by 60% due to COVID-19 lockdown.

One thing is very clear when looking at these statistics that world pollution has decreased. But how long it will sustain to catch up with the lost economy will be interesting to see and watch.
The last thing which I like to mention is about us -  Humans. Why I think COVID-19 is proving to be boon to Planet?

Do you know that humans are only 0.01% of all living things present on our planet and plants made up of more than 80%? Please see below stats from https://www.theworldcounts.com/challenges/planet-earth/state-of-the-planet/world-population-clock-live

In the last 100 years, we polluted our environment to an extent that it is impacting every other living thing on earth and disturbing natural balance. But nature knows how to make the correction to safeguard the majority. COVID-19 is nature weapon to restore the natural balance.

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