(TKG) – Satellite images revealed that air pollution over China has gone down, which is “at least partly” due to an economic slowdown prompted by the coronavirus, media quoted U.S. space agency (NASA).
NASA compared the first two months of 2019 with the same period this year— its maps show falling levels of nitrogen dioxide.
From January 1 to 20 the images show higher levels of nitrogen dioxide over China, but from February 10 to 25, traces of the gas are hardly visible.
The space agency noted that the drop-off in air pollution levels coincided with restriction imposed on transportation and business activities, and as millions of people went into quarantine.
NASA scientists have said, the drop was initially most visible over Wuhan, where the outbreak first began, according to CNN.
The novel coronavirus has now spread in almost 60 countries around the world, mostly in China.
China has recorded nearly 80,000 cases of the virus since the outbreak began.
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