Air quality status during 2020 Malaysia Movement Control Order (MCO) due to 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) pandemic

Air quality; Road vehicles; Air quality monitoring stations; Fine particulate matter (PM2.5); Hazardous air pollutants; Movement control; PM2.5 concentration; Quality status; Reducing emissions; Respiratory illness; Quality control; air quality; atmospheric pollution; concentration (composition); CO...

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Main Authors: Abdullah S., Mansor A.A., Napi N.N.L.M., Mansor W.N.W., Ahmed A.N., Ismail M., Ramly Z.T.A.
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spelling my.uniten.dspace-253562023-05-29T16:08:29Z Air quality status during 2020 Malaysia Movement Control Order (MCO) due to 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) pandemic Abdullah S. Mansor A.A. Napi N.N.L.M. Mansor W.N.W. Ahmed A.N. Ismail M. Ramly Z.T.A. 56509029800 57211858557 57224902975 56896999100 57214837520 57210403363 57196459394 Air quality; Road vehicles; Air quality monitoring stations; Fine particulate matter (PM2.5); Hazardous air pollutants; Movement control; PM2.5 concentration; Quality status; Reducing emissions; Respiratory illness; Quality control; air quality; atmospheric pollution; concentration (composition); COVID-19; disease control; disease incidence; epidemic; infectious disease; particulate matter; pollution monitoring; respiratory disease; viral disease; air pollutant; Air Pollutant Index; air quality; Article; communicable disease control; coronavirus disease 2019; environmental factor; environmental parameters; epidemic; Malaysia; movement control order; pandemic; particulate matter; priority journal; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; air pollution; Betacoronavirus; China; Coronavirus infection; human; virus pneumonia; Malaysia; Coronavirus; Air Pollution; Betacoronavirus; China; Coronavirus Infections; Humans; Malaysia; Pandemics; Pneumonia, Viral An outbreak of respiratory illness which is proven to be infected by a 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) officially named as Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) was first detected in Wuhan, China and has spread rapidly in other parts of China as well as other countries around the world, including Malaysia. The first case in Malaysia was identified on 25 January 2020 and the number of cases continue to rise since March 2020. Therefore, 2020 Malaysia Movement Control Order (MCO) was implemented with the aim to isolate the source of the COVID-19 outbreak. As a result, there were fewer number of motor vehicles on the road and the operation of industries was suspended, ergo reducing emissions of hazardous air pollutants in the atmosphere. We had acquired the Air Pollutant Index (API) data from the Department of Environment Malaysia on hourly basis before and during the MCO with the aim to track the changes of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) at 68 air quality monitoring stations. It was found that the PM2.5 concentrations showed a high reduction of up to 58.4% during the MCO. Several red zone areas (>41 confirmed COVID-19 cases) had also reduced of up to 28.3% in the PM2.5 concentrations variation. The reduction did not solely depend on MCO, thus the researchers suggest a further study considering the influencing factors that need to be adhered to in the future. � 2020 Elsevier B.V. Final 2023-05-29T08:08:29Z 2023-05-29T08:08:29Z 2020 Article 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139022 2-s2.0-85083776928 https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85083776928&doi=10.1016%2fj.scitotenv.2020.139022&partnerID=40&md5=2bd189cbbbbfec2ca2900e8ef7f6f37b https://irepository.uniten.edu.my/handle/123456789/25356 729 139022 All Open Access, Green Elsevier B.V. Scopus
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description Air quality; Road vehicles; Air quality monitoring stations; Fine particulate matter (PM2.5); Hazardous air pollutants; Movement control; PM2.5 concentration; Quality status; Reducing emissions; Respiratory illness; Quality control; air quality; atmospheric pollution; concentration (composition); COVID-19; disease control; disease incidence; epidemic; infectious disease; particulate matter; pollution monitoring; respiratory disease; viral disease; air pollutant; Air Pollutant Index; air quality; Article; communicable disease control; coronavirus disease 2019; environmental factor; environmental parameters; epidemic; Malaysia; movement control order; pandemic; particulate matter; priority journal; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; air pollution; Betacoronavirus; China; Coronavirus infection; human; virus pneumonia; Malaysia; Coronavirus; Air Pollution; Betacoronavirus; China; Coronavirus Infections; Humans; Malaysia; Pandemics; Pneumonia, Viral
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Abdullah S.
Mansor A.A.
Napi N.N.L.M.
Mansor W.N.W.
Ahmed A.N.
Ismail M.
Ramly Z.T.A.
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author Abdullah S.
Mansor A.A.
Napi N.N.L.M.
Mansor W.N.W.
Ahmed A.N.
Ismail M.
Ramly Z.T.A.
spellingShingle Abdullah S.
Mansor A.A.
Napi N.N.L.M.
Mansor W.N.W.
Ahmed A.N.
Ismail M.
Ramly Z.T.A.
Air quality status during 2020 Malaysia Movement Control Order (MCO) due to 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) pandemic
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title Air quality status during 2020 Malaysia Movement Control Order (MCO) due to 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) pandemic
title_short Air quality status during 2020 Malaysia Movement Control Order (MCO) due to 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) pandemic
title_full Air quality status during 2020 Malaysia Movement Control Order (MCO) due to 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) pandemic
title_fullStr Air quality status during 2020 Malaysia Movement Control Order (MCO) due to 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) pandemic
title_full_unstemmed Air quality status during 2020 Malaysia Movement Control Order (MCO) due to 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) pandemic
title_sort air quality status during 2020 malaysia movement control order (mco) due to 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-ncov) pandemic
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