É«É«À² peaked at second place Monday morning in the ranking posted by IQAir, a Swiss air quality company.
By the afternoon, the city had fallen behind Baghdad, Iraq, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Jakarta, Indonesia, Santiago, Chile and Manama, Bahrain.
The company gave É«É«À² an index score of 161 or “unhealthy,” saying the air is being choked by PM2.5 particles, a pollutant commonly found in wildfire smoke. It is particularly harmful because is it very small and can be absorbed into the bloodstream when breathing, IQAir said.
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Kristjan Lautens is a staff reporter, working out of the Star’s
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