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Air pollution killed nearly half a million newborns in 2019, report finds
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October 21, 2020
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Hundreds of thousands of newborns, mostly in India and sub-Saharan Africa, died from air pollution in 2019, a study has found. Noxious fumes from cooking fuels are blamed for causing the majority of the babies' deaths.
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