Nearly 200 schools in Bangkok had to close on Thursday due to air pollution, according to local officials.
Officials also encouraged people to work from home and banned large vehicles from the city.
Like many other countries in the region, Thailand has long suffered from seasonal air pollution, which is caused by a combination of automobile emissions, smoke from burning crop stubble, and colder, stagnant winter air.
According to IQAir, the Thai capital was the sixth most polluted large metropolis globally as of Thursday morning.
The amount of PM2.5 pollutants, which are tiny enough to enter the bloodstream through the lungs and cause cancer, reached 122 micrograms per cubic meter.
For the majority of the year, the World Health Organisation advises that 24-hour average exposures shouldn’t exceed 15.
Authorities in Bangkok stated earlier this week that schools could decide to close in locations with high PM2.5 levels.
Additionally, thousands of children were impacted as…
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