![]() ![]() Vijay Pandey / SOPA / LightRocket via Getty Images ![]() Commuters braving the smog in New Delhi on Nov. ![]() New Delhi’s 20 million residents weren’t breathing air so much as smoke. In some areas of the city, the reading exceeded 800, according to the Delhi Pollution Control Committee, a regulatory body. By the first week of November, New Delhi’s air quality index was 472, high enough to affect healthy people while having a serious impact on those with existing conditions. “His health started to get worse after the October rains as farmers turned to burning stubble, but it went out of control on Diwali night,” his father, journalist Abhishek Anand, said.Īnand said his son’s respiratory issues, which he developed when he was a year old, resurfaced this year after vanishing during the coronavirus pandemic, when lockdowns curbed India’s economic activity and the resulting pollution.Īfter the fireworks subsided, the air only got worse. ![]()
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