Fig. 1.
Top panel (A, B): Covid-19 outbreak in China compared to concentration of particulate matter (PM 2.5) (Wikipedia.org;CC BY-SA 4.0). Panel C: Italian distribution of COVID-19 cases. Top right and bottom right panel (D,E): Levels of NO2 air pollutant(Month of December) in China and North Italy (Source: NASA G.I.O.V.A.N.N.I. - see https://giovanni.gsfc.nasa.gov/giovanni/).Bottom panel F: Nitrogen Dioxide pollution map over EUROPE as seen by Copernicus SENTINEL 5P satellite (Jan to Apr 2019).(Credit: ESA - Copernicus SENTINEL 5P CC BY-SA IGO3.0,https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2019/05/Nitrogen_dioxide_over_northern_Italy).