Document Type : COVID-19

Authors

Department of Energy Engineering and Physics, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran

Abstract

As COVID-19 has propagated well-known, governments have taken nationwide moderation to restrain it, from regulations to moves toward off the economization as a whole. Know-how its outcome is imperative to help larger policies for nations that are not but preponderant or in the outcome of a succeeding epidemic. Here we demonstrated that the aggregated conquest in electricity decay in the five-month sequential homestay management became among 3% and 12% in most affected European and Asia countries; besides, Florida, which has not proven any continuous variation. For the reason that Italy, France, Spain, China, and India got greater fundamental damage through the limit of July, especially Britain and Germany are under the baseline. We also showed that the connection between severity and the curtailment of covid-19 based electricity decay is not linear. Those findings showed the extremity of the disaster in different nations and could further look at the upcoming, similar global crisis.

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