US EditionGrowing pollution in Pakistan's Punjab province has sickened 1.8M people in a month, officials say
- In the past month, worsening air pollution in Pakistan's Punjab province has sickened an estimated 1.8 million people, according to health officials.
- Schools in Punjab were ordered to close for five days to protect children's health from respiratory issues caused by the smog.
- The U.N. children's agency warned that 11 million children's health is at risk due to toxic smog, which has affected Lahore and surrounding districts since October.
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The province where 1.8 million people have gotten sick in a month due to toxic smog
Worsening air pollution sickened an estimated 1.8 million people in Pakistan's eastern Punjab province in the past month, health officials said on Tuesday, as schools across the province were ordered to close for five days to protect children's health.Punjab with a population of 127 million has been struggling to combat smog since last month.
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Growing pollution in Pakistan's Punjab province has sickened 1.8M people in a month, officials say
Officials say worsening air pollution in the past month has sickened an estimated 1.8 million people in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province.
Located in South Asia, this Pakistani city has been flooded with a toxic fog that causes severe respiratory damage to its inhabitants.
Islamabad (EFE).- One in two people in the streets of Lahore, capital of the Pakistani province of Punjab, coughs or complains of sore throat while carrying out their daily tasks, with few options to prevent toxic particles from falling into their lungs by breathing the air of the most polluted city in the [...] The post "We have been without seeing sunlight for days": living in Lahore, the world's most polluted city first appeared on RNN Nation…
The increasing air pollution has made about 1.8 million people sick in the eastern province of Punjab in Pakistan over the past month, health authorities reported on Tuesday, so schools were ordered shut down throughout the province for five days to protect the health of children.
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