Dhaka’s air quality remains ‘unhealthy’ Thursday morning

City Desk :

Dhaka’s air quality continued to be in the ‘unhealthy’ zone on Thursday morning.

With an air quality index (AQI) score of 160 at 9:13 am, Dhaka ranked eighth on the list of cities worldwide with the worst air quality, reports UNB.

Pakistan’s Lahore, India’s Delhi and China’s Wuhan occupied the first three spots on the list, with AQI scores of 248, 212 and 182, respectively.

When the AQI value for particle pollution is between 101 and 150, air quality is considered ‘unhealthy for sensitive groups’, between 150 and 200 is ‘unhealthy’, between 201 and 300 is said to be ‘very unhealthy’, while a reading of 301+ is considered ‘hazardous’, posing serious health risks to residents.