Impact of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) on daily routines and air environment: evidence from Turkey
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Impact of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) on daily routines and air environment: evidence from Turkey Hussain Ali 1 & Gozde Yilmaz 1 & Zeeshan Fareed 2 & Farrukh Shahzad 3
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Munir Ahmad 4
Received: 2 June 2020 / Accepted: 13 September 2020 # Springer Nature B.V. 2020
Abstract Turkish people are facing several problems because of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), as the pandemic has brought about drastic changes to their daily routines. This study mainly investigates the impact of this pandemic on the daily routines of Turkish. It also unveils how COVID-19 affects the air environment. The adopted methods for data collection are based on open-ended questions and Facebook interviews as per recommended by QSR-International (2012). The sample of this study comprises of Turkish students as well as professional workers. The findings of the research show that there are eighteen different results of COVID-19 that have been identified according to the Turkish people’s daily routines. Results reveal that increasing unemployment, decrease in air contamination, high stress and depression, a slowdown in the economic growth, and the tourism industry are profoundly affected due to the COVID-19 in Turkey. Furthermore, on the one hand, the consequences of the pandemic are segregated into social problems and psychological issues in daily routines. On the other hand, they have shown a positive impact on the air environment. This study concludes that, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the lives of the people in Turkey are subject to deterioration, while the air environment of Turkey is gradually improving. Keywords COVID-19 . Daily Routines . Air Environment . Social Problems . Psychological Problems
Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic disease was confirmed in Turkey on March 11, 2020, when a Turkish person came back from Europe, and his coronavirus test was positive (Sabah 2020a). The Turkish government announced publicly on 12 March 2020 that the primary, middle, and high schools would remain closed for 1 week and the universities for 3 weeks. Yekta Sarac, president of the Council of Higher Education, declared on 26 March 2020 that all universities continue the spring semester through remote education. He also explains Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11869-020-00943-2) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. * Farrukh Shahzad [email protected] 1
Graduate School of Social Sciences, Isik University, Istanbul, Turkey
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School of Business, Huzhou University, Huzhou, Zhejiang, China
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School of Economics and Management, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, Maoming, Guangdong, China
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School of Economics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
that practical courses could not be offered with a distance learning system, and at the end of the summer months, digital education would be completed (sputniknews 2020). High school entrance exam (LGS) will be conducted on 20 June, and the higher education exam (YKS) will be held on
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