Improvement in air quality was either due to social distancing or rainfall

Change in AQI, rainfall and fires from 2019 to 2021 and change in mobility compared to baseline (%)

Data for December up to December 23 for all indicators except mobility. Mobility data up to December 20. The baseline for mobility is January 3 to February 6 period of 2020.

Source: CPCB, IMD gridded rainfall dataset, Google Community Mobility Reports, FIRMS-NASA Get the data