Tag: Working Parties

Chair of Air Monitoring talks about the COVID-19 effect on air quality on Channel 4

July 29, 2020July 29, 2020 Ann-Marie KnegtAir Monitoring, Working Parties

Roland Leigh, WCRAQ’s Chair of Air Monitoring, appeared on Channel 4’s Dispatches documentary, Coronavirus: How Britain is Changing. As Technical Director of EarthSense, he discussed how COVID-19 has caused a change in air quality and what this means for the…

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WCRAQ Chair of Air Health releases new report forewarning possibility of a COVID-19 winter wave

July 14, 2020July 14, 2020 Ann-Marie KnegtAir Health, Air Monitoring, Air Quality News, Recent News, Working Parties

As the UK is easing lockdown restrictions, WCRAQ’s Chair of Air Health, Professor Stephen Holgate, has released a new report outlining the possibility of 120,000 further coronavirus deaths in a second wave of infections this winter.

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