Our project focuses on the SDGs, and it is found that the third goal; which is good health and well-being as when COVID-19 came, people started to stay at home and work from home, this lead to the decrease of using the vehicles and huge factories and this lead to decreasing of air pollution and it is noticed that the hole of ozone started to retract, all of that lead to decreasing of the diseases which are resulted from air pollution; such as lungs cancer. It is also noticed that it is related to the ninth goal industry innovation and infrastructure as after the epidemic of COVID 19 people stopped to go work in factories companies etc. so the rate of production and innovation is lower than it was before so this epidemic has a bad effect on it.
In addition to that, It is related to the thirteenth goal climate action as after a lack of factory activity, the rate of escalation of gases and pollutants that increase the ozone hole decreases, which also increases the proportion of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which increases global warming so although COVID 19 has bad effects it also has good effects on us.
We choose this challenge as we see that the SDGs are very important and we should focus on them as they are very important as the United Nations had mentioned before in addition to that, they are easy to be applicable.
How does COVID-19 affect on the communities?
As we all can see that most of the factories are closed and a huge number of people are working online from their homes.
Most of the countries applied quarantine on the citizens to save them from the meetings that are the main reason for the spreading of COVID-19. We searched and collected information about how COVID-19 affects on human activities and pollution. We concluded that during the spreading of COVID-19, the pollution rates decreased and human activities also decreased.
As the people's meetings had been decreased in the last few months and most of the people are staying home so, the CO2 gas in the air had been decreased in big rates. Therefore, the visions of the satellites are clearer than they have been before so that the ozone layer is getting to being thicker and the ozone hole is getting smaller and smaller.
(notice that: Ozone hole is a region of marked thinning of the ozone layer in high latitudes not a hole inside the atmosphere).
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