Dhaka ranked fifth on the list of cities with the worst air quality with an AQI ranking of 191 at 8:12am straight away (7 December).
Dhaka air used to be categorised as “unhealthy,” per the AQI index.
Egypt’s Cairo, Chaina’s Shanghai, India’s Delhi occupied the first, second and third spots on the list, with AQI ratings of 280, 214 and 203 respectively.
When the AQI value for particle pollution is between 50 and 100, air quality is truly apt ‘real looking’, typically sensitive other folks can even restful snatch into tale limiting prolonged out of doors peril, between 101 and 150, air quality is truly apt ‘unhealthy for sensitive teams’, between 150 and 200 is ‘unhealthy’, between 201 and 300 is said to be ‘very unhealthy’, whereas a reading of 301+ is truly apt ‘hazardous’, posing excessive health dangers to residents.
The AQI, an index for reporting each day air quality, informs other folks how trim or polluted the air of a certain city is and what associated health effects can even very successfully be a declare for them.
The AQI in Bangladesh is essentially based mostly utterly on 5 pollutants: particulate topic (PM10 and PM2.5), NO2, CO, SO2, and ozone.
Dhaka has prolonged been grappling with air pollution elements. Its air quality typically turns unhealthy in iciness and improves at some stage in the monsoon.
As per World Effectively being Organization (WHO), air pollution kills an estimated seven million other folks worldwide yearly, essentially due to the elevated mortality from stroke, coronary heart disease, power obstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer, and acute respiratory infections.
