Delhi’s schoolchildren are getting smog masks as the air quality sinks to 'severe'. More here:
NEW DELHI - Authorities in New Delhi declared a public health emergency on Friday and closed schools and all construction activity until next week as air pollution in the city hit its worst level this year.
An index measuring the level of a deadly air pollutant hit 484 on a scale of 500 on Friday, the government’s Central Pollution Control Board, the worst this year. It banned all construction work in the sprawling metropolis of 20 million people and its neighbouring cities until Nov. 5. According to government-run monitor SAFAR, satellite pictures had captured nearly 3,200 incidents of stubble burning on Thursday in Haryana and Punjab that contributed to 44% percent of Delhi’s pollution.
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