HANOI — Thick smog blanketed Hanoi on Friday, obscuring buildings and leaving 9 million residents choking on toxic air as the Vietnamese capital topped a list of the world's most polluted major cities.
HANOI — Thick smog blanketed Hanoi on Friday, obscuring buildings and leaving 9 million residents choking on toxic air as the Vietnamese capital topped a list of the world's most polluted major cities.Authorities urged people to wear masks and limit time outdoors, but commuters told AFP they were struggling to breathe through the putrid smog, now a fixture of the winter months in the city.According to IQAir, levels of PM2.
Office worker Tran Quynh Lan told AFP that her struggle to breathe through noxious haze while commuting on a motorbike had forced her to switch to buses and taxis, despite the increased cost.'The air quality has been so extremely bad that I really don't feel I can breathe easily in the open air. I have to wear masks all the time,' she said.The WHO says that a number of serious health conditions are linked to air pollution exposure, including strokes, heart disease and lung can-cer.
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