Dhaka, the overcrowded capital city of Bangladesh, has ranked the vital on the list of cities with the worst air quality with an AQI rating of 242 at 9am this morning (December 06, 2024).
This day’s air used to be labeled as ‘unhealthy’, in accordance with the AQI index.
When the AQI rate for particle air pollution is between 50 and 100, air quality is actually apt ‘practical’, most steadily relaxed other folks would possibly per chance well honest tranquil take into fable limiting prolonged out of doorways inconvenience, between 101 and 150, air quality is actually apt ‘unhealthy for relaxed groups’, between 150 and 200 is ‘unhealthy’, between 201 and 300 is declared to be ‘very unhealthy’, while a reading of 301+ is actually apt ‘unsafe’, posing serious health risks to residents.
Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City, Pakistan’s Karachi and Lahore respectively occupied the 2nd, third and fourth spots on the list, with AQI ratings of 190, 186 and 186 respectively.
The AQI, an index for reporting each day air quality, informs people how good or polluted the air of a obvious city is and what associated health results would possibly per chance well honest be a field for them.
The AQI in Bangladesh is in accordance with five pollutants: particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5), NO2, CO, SO2, and ozone.
Dhaka has lengthy been grappling with air air pollution components. Its air quality most steadily turns unhealthy in cold climate and improves all the arrangement via the monsoon.
As per World Health Organization (WHO), air air pollution kills an estimated seven million people worldwide every year, totally on account of elevated mortality from stroke, heart disease, persistent obstructive pulmonary disease, lung most cancers, and acute respiratory infections.
