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New Delhi on Monday unveiled a series of plans for the Indian capital’s annual poisonous smog, as the government warned that severe pollutants may worsen with the coronavirus outbreak.
The city’s air, home to another 20 million people, becomes a destructive cocktail of dust and smoke every winter, caused by vehicle fumes, commercial emissions and smoke from agricultural fires.
Fog sees the city ranked among the world’s top polluted.
At a virtual press convention on Monday, Delhi’s leading minister, Arvind Kejriwal, said the government would launch a series of projects: establish a “war room” to deal with hot spots when standing up and experimenting with new technologies to deal with old problems.
For starters, the government will verify the so-called biodecomposition process, which would turn stubble into fertilizer, Kejriwal said.
The fermented liquid, made with cane sugar and flour, is intended to slowly break the straw.
Smoke from burnt stubble, especially from neighboring states, is guilty of almost a portion of the air pollutants in New Delhi, even if it is officially banned.
Air quality will be monitored in a new war room and checks will be carried out at the sites.
The government will also introduce a phone application that will allow others to report on polluters.
Delhi measurements of PM2. 5, small waste entering the bloodstream and important organs, succeed in nearly 40 times the point of protection advised by the World Health Organization of the 25.
Pollution levels plummeted before this year when the months-long national blockade opposed to coronavirus disrupted much of commercial production.
But experts say respite may not particularly diminish the seasonal “air apocalypse. “
“The blockade has helped in the sense that reference degrees are falling,” Anand Krishnan, a network professor at the Indian Institute of Medical Sciences in Delhi, told AFP.
“But the reasons for the October and November pollutant peaks (climate agricultural fires) have changed. “
People with pre-existing lung or central diseases bothered by pollutants can be hit with a “double blow” if they also suffer from Covid-19, Professor Dorairaj Prabhakaran from the Public Health Foundation of India told AFP.
Delhi has been greatly affected by the epidemic, with nearly 300,000 infections out of a national total of 6. 6 million.
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