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CLAUDIO REYES
The Harvard research study recommends Covid-19 death rates in the United States rose where there was a high concentration of great particulate matter (PM2.5).
High levels of air contamination could raise the risk of dying from Covid-19, two research studies recommend.
Dr Maria Neira, of the World Health Organization (WHO), told BBC News nations with high pollution levels, many in Latin America, Africa and Asia, must increase their preparations.
Those with underlying pollution-related conditions have established serious Covid-19 in countries with high levels.
But medical professionals say it is prematurely to prove a direct relationship.
” We will be doing a map of most polluted cities based on our database to support national authorities in these regions so that they can prepare their epidemic reaction plan accordingly,” Dr Neira said.
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Eduardo Munoz Alvarez
The Harvard study recommends lower contamination levels in the years before the pandemic could have led to a considerable decline in Covid-19 death rates.
The Harvard research study has not yet been peer reviewed however Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich chair of epidemiology Air contamination connected to raised Covid-19 death danger Prof Annette Peters informed BBC News its findings “are in line with earlier reports on hospitalisation and death due to pneumonia”.
” It is one of the first research studies validating our suspic