India: Smog causes health emergency during Merkel visit
By DW
24 November 2019 |
3:20 pm
India's pollution authority has ordered schools in the capital to shut, calling a health emergency due to smog. Pollution particles in the air have hit nine times the recommended WHO level, US Embassy figures show.
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