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City college hosts webinar on ‘Importance of indoor air quality during Covid-19 lockdown’

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Mysuru: Department of Chemistry, GSSSIETW, Mysuru had organised an online programme on Importance of Indoor Air Quality during COVID-19 Lockdown” recently through Google meet online platform.

Dr Shilpa B S, Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Vidyavardhaka College of Engineering, Mysuru was the guest speaker. 

In her address, Shilpa explained that, “COVID-19 pandemic brought the world to its knees and forced a majority of the global population to remain indoors to practice the concept of social distancing. Many countries took lockdown policy to restrict human activities and industry to slow down the virus spread. The implementation of strict lockdown resulted in less traffic and industrial emissions, thus reduction of various ambient air pollutants were observed in urban areas”.

Considering the people stayed longer time in indoor, the indoor air pollution (IAP) plays more important role for human health during lockdown. People suffered from high possibility of indoor air pollution exposure risk increase during lockdown as they almost stayed at home for the whole day.

Indoor air quality has been neglected for a long period of time. But, with the ongoing pandemic and the pollution concerns, we can no longer afford to ignore the unfiltered and pollutant-filled air which can pose a risk to our health. Even after the pandemic has passed, it is key to focus on clean air solutions in all indoor spaces like office, home, commercial spaces such as malls and movie theatres, she added.

Followed by this, Shilpa explained about the current building regulations and standards are less concerned about the internal air quality. It can be improved through the policy change across the public health, urban planning and building design sectors. COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need to prioritize design strategies which will improve internal air quality and it can lead to develop strong immune system to fight against the future air borne outbreak. During this time use of various disinfectants has increased drastically in indoor spaces such as homes, government and private organizations to curb the spread of COVID-19. 

The COVID-19 pandemic which has already proven its devastating disposition, with increasing evidence of the virus airborne nature, there is a need for air purification. New-age, cutting edge mechanisms to purify the air, will certainly witness a major improvement in the indoor air quality and the overall health of people.

The session was followed by question & answer in which most of the doubts raised by the participants were clarified by the distinguished speaker.

More than 50 participants which included staff, students of the institute and external participants got benefited through the webinar.

The event was supported by Vanaja B Pandit, Hon. Secretary, GSSS (R), R K Bharath, Member & CEO, GSSS(R), Dr Shivakumar M, Principal, GSSSIETW and Anupama B Pandit, Administrative Officer, GSSSIETW, Mysuru. 

The event was coordinated by Dr Bellappa S, Professor & Head, Department of Chemistry and his team faculty members, according to Sheshadri S N, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, GSSSIETW, Mysuru.

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