Lahore’s air quality index (AQI) was 299 on Wednesday, barely one point below the “hazardous” category, as the city still struggles with extreme smog.
After over a month of recording dangerously high levels of pollutants in the atmosphere, the Swiss air quality monitor, IQAir, has reported that the capital of Punjab has been hovering above the 300 mark, the threshold deemed harmful for human health, for almost ten days.
With a concentration of PM2.5 particles, the fine particulate matter in Lahore’s air that causes the most harm to health, 44.8 times higher than the World Health Organization’s (WHO) annual air quality guideline value, Lahore is currently the second most polluted major city in the world.
