On Nov. 17, India’s capital, New Delhi, recorded nan astir polluted day successful its recorded history, arsenic residents breathed aerial that was considered astatine slightest 50 times higher than nan World Health Organization’s safe limit. The suffocating smog brought nan metropolis to a standstill, pinch students and labor asked to enactment home.
“I’ve lived successful Delhi my full big life, but nan city’s aerial scares maine now,” journalist Romita Saluja says. These days, she adds, she avoids nan superior altogether during nan autumn and wintertime months, aft she noticed a recurring shape of coughs, colds and breathing difficulties.
Across nan separator successful Pakistan’s Punjab province, authorities branded nan smog a “national disaster,” starring to nan shutdown of schools, restaurants and building activities.
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