Environmental Impact and Countermeasures during the Global COVID-19 Pandemic

Yuanyuan Huang, Guilan Gao, Shuai Chen, Yaoguang Guo, Lian Duan, Lian Duan

2021

Abstract

Outbreak of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been sweeping the world, which both changes our lifestyle and affects the environment. In this paper, environmental effects and countermeasures of COVID-19 has been evaluated. Negative effects of COVID-19 contain potential environmental risks of medical waste, lack of targeted testing indicators, potential risks of antiviral drugs antibiotics, while positive effects include reduced air pollution and improved environmental standards. Further, refining the detecting and discharging standards of wastewater to increase testing programs of hospital wastewater and rainwater treatment for SARS-CoV-2 RNA and its activity, as well as enhancing clinical waste disposal capacity because of the exposed problem of inadequate treatment system and insufficient capacity, are raised as the countermeasures to weaken the negative effects of COVID-19.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Huang Y., Gao G., Chen S., Guo Y. and Duan L. (2021). Environmental Impact and Countermeasures during the Global COVID-19 Pandemic. In Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare - Volume 1: CAIH, ISBN 978-989-758-594-4, pages 58-63. DOI: 10.5220/0011165100003444

in Bibtex Style

@conference{caih21,
author={Yuanyuan Huang and Guilan Gao and Shuai Chen and Yaoguang Guo and Lian Duan},
title={Environmental Impact and Countermeasures during the Global COVID-19 Pandemic},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare - Volume 1: CAIH,},
year={2021},
pages={58-63},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011165100003444},
isbn={978-989-758-594-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare - Volume 1: CAIH,
TI - Environmental Impact and Countermeasures during the Global COVID-19 Pandemic
SN - 978-989-758-594-4
AU - Huang Y.
AU - Gao G.
AU - Chen S.
AU - Guo Y.
AU - Duan L.
PY - 2021
SP - 58
EP - 63
DO - 10.5220/0011165100003444