Hundreds hospitalised in Pakistan as smog reaches record levels
Hundreds of people have been hospitalised following days of record-breaking smog in the Pakistani city of Lahore.
Hasnain says:
I remember visiting Lahore in 2018 (?) when there was a huge outbreak of smog the day after I arrived and ... it was not great. It took a while for my family that wasn't in Lahore to understand how bad it got (since it was the first in a while). This is 10x worse. It'll only get worse.
To contextualize the bad AQI for folks in the bay who may be familiar with AQI numbers -- it's currently >600, and has been recorded at over 1000 (some sources reported 1900). Those numbers are not typos.
Posted on 2024-11-13T00:15:03+0000