**Preface to "COVID-19 and Environment: Impacts of a Global Pandemic"**

COVID-19 outbreak was first reported in China in 2019 and spread worldwide in early 2020. With the spread of COVID-19 and the corresponding negative impact on different life aspects, it has become important to understand the ways to deal with the pandemic as a part of daily life. Numerous studies on COVID-19 have investigated meteorological factors, clinical features, and public health interventions that affect infection and morbidity. However, the problems still exists and more investigation is required. Challenges are the limitation of accurate/complete data, the effect of restrictions, and variabilities of medical service quality in different countries. In addition, circumstances are dynamically changing due to policies, vaccines, and the advent of new variants all over the world. The investigation of correlation between COVID-19 and environmental factors based on long-term analysis and data curation would lead to better sustainable management of healthcare resources and government policies.

This Special Issue aims to collect articles of high academic standards investigating the links between the COVID-19 pandemic and environmental factors. We have received several manuscripts, from which 17 papers have passed the peer-review process and are presented here as a reprint.

> **Sachiko Kodera and Essam Rashed** *Editors*
