At 7:30 a.m. this morning (December 6), the IQAir air pollution index measuring application ranked Hanoi as the 12th most polluted city in the world with an AQI of 153 - unhealthy for health.
Although the air pollution index decreased compared to the same time yesterday morning, most air quality measuring points in Hanoi were still at the red threshold.
At 7:00 a.m., at Quang Khanh station, the AQI index continued to be high, AQI was 172; at Le Duan AQI stood at 161; Dong Truc commune, Thach That district (now Ha Bang commune) AQI 161.
According to the monitoring system of the Department of Environment (Ministry of Agriculture and Environment), at 7:00 a.m. this morning, at the measuring station at the gate of Hanoi University of Science and Technology on Giai Phong Street, the AQI was 118 - a poor level. At the same time yesterday morning, the air quality at the measuring point had improved but was still likely to affect health. With this index, sensitive people have health problems, normal people are less affected.
At station 556 Nguyen Van Cu at 7:00 a.m. this morning, the AQI was 97. Compared to the same time yesterday, today's AQI index is lower than 72.
Faced with air pollution in Hanoi. On December 1, the Hanoi People's Committee issued an official dispatch advising people, especially the elderly, children and people with respiratory diseases, to limit outdoor activities and wear masks when going out on days when air quality is low.
The city is strengthening many response solutions such as preparing guidance documents to help people recognize the time of pollution, improving the capacity to receive respiratory patients at inner-city hospitals and monitoring the air with a continuously updated monitoring system via the VN-AQI platform.
The specialized forces coordinated with central units to deploy satellites, drones, traffic cameras and data from the iHanoi application to detect the situation of garbage burning and straw burning early.
