The Relationship between Air Quality and COVID-19 Pandemic

Respiratory droplet and contact transmission are the main transmission routes for COVID-19 transmission. Many chronic diseases, such as cardiopulmonary and metabolic diseases, result from long and short-term contributions to air pollution. This article aims to examine the relationship between air quality and the COVID-19 pandemic. This article uses a literature study. Google Scholar is used as the main source in the literature search. The studies selected based on the title and keywords were 14 journals, then the studies selected for further evaluation were 6 journals and 3 journals that could be relevant to this article. The COVID-19 pandemic and air quality have a reciprocal relationship. On the one hand, exposure to air pollution indirectly increases the severity of patients infected with COVID-19 by becoming one of the factors that cause comorbidities. The pandemic has had a positive impact on air quality. Business closures, loss of traffic jams, and the cessation of construction projects and non-essential industries during the lockdown have impacted improving air quality.