{"id":59604,"date":"2023-11-03T15:04:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T06:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/03\/delhi-india-air-quality-pollution-spike-world-health-organization-limit"},"modified":"2023-11-03T15:04:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T06:04:05","slug":"delhi-air-pollution-spikes-to-100-times-who-health-limit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59604","title":{"rendered":"Delhi air pollution spikes to 100 times WHO health limit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Season of smog begins with air quality index near worst possible level of 500 and little apparent progress in controlling annual poisonous blight on life<\/p>\n<p>Air quality in Delhi hit severe levels on Friday and a thick toxic smog cloaked the city, marking the beginning of a pollution season that has become an annual catastrophe for India\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n<p>Schools were shut and non-essential construction was banned around Delhi as the air quality index in the city almost hit 500 \u2013 the highest the measurement will go and 100 times the limit deemed to be healthy by the World Health Organization.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/03\/delhi-india-air-quality-pollution-spike-world-health-organization-limit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Season of smog begins with air quality index near worst possible level of 500 and little apparent progress in controlling annual poisonous blight on lifeAir quality in Delhi hit severe levels on Friday and a thick toxic smog cloaked the city, marking t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[722,353,65,62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-pollution","category-delhi","category-environment","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59604"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59619,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59604\/revisions\/59619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}