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. 2021 Jul 16;5:100215. doi: 10.1016/j.envc.2021.100215

Table 3.

PM2.5 and PM10 mass concentrations (μg/m3) for the curfew and non curfew during the lockdown (22 March–10 May 2020): Before and after removing ‘dust effect’.

Dust Effect Period Mean Median Minimum Maximum SD Wilcoxon*
PM2.5 Before Curfew 30.2 26.6 8.6 93.7 14.7
z = 0.825,
sig. = 0.409
Non curfew 38.4 27.3 9.5 404.1 57.1

After
Curfew 27.2 25.8 8.6 58.7 10.6
z = 0.666, sig. = 0.431
Non curfew 26.8 23.0 9.5 47.5 10.8

PM10

Before
Curfew 109.9 90.1 44.7 447.3 81.4
z = 2.302, sig. = 0.021**
Non curfew 149.2 95.5 41.4 1278.0 209.4

After
Curfew 83.3 70.9 44.7 150.3 32.4
z = 0.624, sig. = 0.490
Non curfew 82.5 73.6 41.4 155.8 30.7

* Wilcoxon matched-pairs signed-ranks test; ** p -value ≤0.05.