Chiang Mai suffers from severe fine-dust air pollution

Air air pollution shrouds Chiang Mai in northern Thailand on March 10, 2023. (Picture supply: AFP)

Hanoi – Authorities companies in Thailand’s Chiang Mai have been ordered to let workers make money working from home to guard their well being as ranges of PM2.5 smog surged to virtually unprecedented ranges.

Native residents have been requested to restrict going outside amidst hazardous ranges of air air pollution.

On April 7 morning, the air monitoring web site IQAir ranked Chiang Mai as probably the most polluted main metropolis on the planet, forward of standard hotspots resembling Delhi and Lahore of India.

Ranges of probably the most harmful PM2.5 particles – so tiny they will enter the bloodstream – have been greater than 66 occasions the World Well being Group’s annual guideline, in accordance with IQAir.

This vacationer metropolis has been shrouded in smoke from forest fires and seasonal agricultural burning in latest weeks.

Based on the Thai Ministry of Well being, practically 2 million folks in Thailand have been hospitalised for respiratory diseases associated to air air pollution to this point this yr.

In February, the Thai authorities suggested folks to put on masks when going out and think about working from residence to keep away from PM2.5 tremendous mud air pollution.

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