Northern China is braced for more days of hazardous air quality following a week of toxic smog in Beijing that has consistently averaged more than 16 times the World Health Organisation’s recommended upper limit.
On Tuesday, the WHO representative in China described the choking pollution as a “crisis” and urged residents in the Chinese capital to stay home and “basically cope with it as much as possible”.
For the first time since it introduced an emergency smog alert system in October, the Beijing government issued an “amber alert”, its second-highest warning level, last Friday and then reissued the same alert on Monday.
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