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Delhi continued to battle with air pollution for the 10th consecutive day post-Diwali as a dense layer of smog blanketed parts of the national capital on Sunday. Several parts of the national capital recorded very poor air quality levels on Sunday morning as per the data issued by the System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research (SAFAR-India). Today morning, Anand Vihar recorded an AQI of 351, Bawana 383, CRRI Mathura Road 323, Dwarka Sector 8 at 341, IGI Airport at 326, ITO 328, Lodhi Road 319, Mundka at 358, Najafgarh at 341, New Moti Bagh at 394, Okhla phase-2 at 339, RK Puram at 368, and Wazirpur at 366, as per SAFAR-India data. As of 5 pm on November 10, Delhi's AQI stood at 334, with Anand Vihar at 353, Dilshad Garden at 262, and Jahangirpuri at 377. For tomorrow, AQI in adjoining cities of Noida and Gurugram is forecasted to be at 208.92 and 77.51, respectively. Multiple visuals from Delhi's Kartavya Path showed the area surrounding India Gate engulfed by a layer of smog. The AQI in the area was recorded at 357 as of 7 am. High-rise buildings were also covered in smog in the Kalindi Kunj and surrounding locality, as the AQI was recorded as 323 in the area. An AQI is considered "poor" between '200 and 300', "very poor" at '301 and 400', "severe" at '401-450," and 450 and above is "severe plus." As the air pollution levels in the national capital reach "very poor," doctors say that even people with no history of respiratory diseases are suffering from breathing issues. Dr. Nikhil Modi, Senior Consultant for Respiratory Critical Care at Apollo Hospital, told ANI that apart from the regular patients, those who haven't had any respiratory issues in the past are showing up with symptoms such as runny noses, sneezing, coughing, and having increasing difficulties breathing. As it is, respiratory illnesses in the national capital are estimated to have shot up by around 15-20%. The Apollo doctor further suggested that the government close the schools for children as they remain vulnerable. Whenever the pollution levels have gone beyond a certain limit, the government has opted to close the schools, Dr. Modi said. "For the last few years, we have been seeing that the government has taken action. Whenever this pollution level has gone beyond a certain limit, they have opted to close the schools. This is important because children are from a vulnerable group. As adults, we are masked and can protect ourselves better, but children usually are not that effectively taking these measures. Secondly, their lungs are still in developing stages, so they are bound to have more harm due to this pollution," the doctor told ANI. Siddharth Singhal, Head of Health Insurance, Policybazaar.com, notes that while most standard health plans in India cover pollution-related ailments, it is always advised to also go for an OPD plan along with a health insurance plan to cover consultations, medications, and diagnostic tests that may be required frequently due to pollution. "Pollution levels in Delhi-NCR and some other parts of India have shot up post Diwali. Effects of this are very evident in the form of sore throats and breathing problems, among others. This can also result in respiratory ailments and chronic conditions like asthma, bronchitis, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), pneumonia, and severe cases of respiratory or bronchial obstruction. Health insurance becomes critical to cover such expenses. Most policies typically cover emergency hospitalization for respiratory issues like asthma or COPD exacerbations requiring ICU or critical care," he adds.

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<ul><li>On Sunday (November 3), <keyword id="2578389" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="AQI">AQI</keyword> levels went beyond 1000 in multiple places in Delhi. </li><li><keyword id="6369698" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="corporates">Corporates</keyword> in Delhi have been facilitating work from home as well as providing flexible timings to help employees stay indoors.</li><li>Many have also installed advanced level air purifiers to control air quality inside office premises.</li></ul>Delhi’s severe <keyword id="55910" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Air-Pollution">air pollution</keyword> levels has everyone worried. Schools are shut, odd even scheme is announced, and masks are selling like hotcakes. On Sunday (November 3), AQI levels went beyond 1000, and just then, Monday blues for professionals took a serious turn. But corporates too have taken steps to protect their employees from Delhi’s toxic air Work from home Almost all major companies urged their employees to work from home and stay indoors. Companies like H&amp;M, Coca Cola, KFC and offered flexible work timings as well as work-from-home option. H&amp;M India <a href="https://www.latestly.com/india/news/delhi-air-pollution-hm-kfc-coca-cola-others-allow-employees-flexible-timings-work-from-home-options-1315079.html">reportedly</a> gave its employees the flexible timing option till November 15. Securing the workplace Many companies are securing their workplaces, making way for a sustainable approach. <keyword id="51757" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="TIMES-INTERNET">Times Internet</keyword> in its Delhi offices of Noida and Gurugram installed “electrostatic precipitators/chemical filters in the centralized air conditioning plant”. This ensures that the air quality inside the office premises ranges between good and satisfactory levels. Startups like <keyword id="44033" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="hike">Hike</keyword> too installed the same in 2016. Hike’s advanced Oxidation system based on Ionized Hydro Peroxides. “The system is based on Advanced Oxidation Process (AOP) i.e., Hydrogen Peroxide to reduce microbial contamination and gaseous contamination . Hydro-Peroxides are very effective at destroying harmful microbial in the air and on the surfaces.It does not require the pollutants to travel to the unit for treatment or filtration. These oxidizers produced are friendly which means that revert back to oxygen and H2O after the oxidation of the pollutant,” explained the company. With this, the average AQI at Hike has been at 89 throughout October. <div type="image" title="AQI Level at Hike - 6th November 2019" msid="71940067" hostid="261" caption="&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;AQI Level at Hike - 6th November 2019&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;"></div>

AQI level at Hike on November 6, 2019 No surge pricing Ride-hailing companies Ola and Uber both announced that they would cancel surge pricing as the Indian capital suffered. Uber started a campaign called #Leaveyourcarbehind, to promote shared mobility. Meanwhile, Ola announced that there will be no peak pricing on rides during the period of the odd-even scheme which is between November 4-15. “The implementation of the odd-even scheme offers an opportunity to further unlock the potential of shared mobility. We are ensuring that all our services across cabs, autos, bikes and shared cabs, will be available to serve citizens,” said Arun Srinivas, chief sales and marketing officer at Ola.

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The <keyword id="6354977" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Supreme-Court">Supreme Court</keyword> Wednesday said it is a question of life and death of crores of people in Delhi-NCR region which is facing severe <keyword id="55910" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Air-Pollution">air pollution</keyword> and the authorities have to be held responsible for its failure to curb it. "Can you permit people to die like this due to pollution? Can you permit the country to go back by 100 years," observed a bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra. "We have to make government responsible for this," the bench said and asked, "Why can't govt machinery stop stubble burning? Coming down heavily on state governments, the top court said that if they don't bother about people, they have no right to be in power. "You just want to sit in your ivory towers and rule. You are not bothered and are letting the people die," the bench said. "You (states) have forgotten the concept of welfare government. They are not bothered about poor people, this is very unfortunate," said the bench, also comprising Justice Deepak Gupta. It also questioned as to why the state governments cannot collect and purchase stubble from farmers. "We expect more from democratic government of the country to deal with issue of stubble burning and curb pollution," the bench said, adding that "it is a question of life and death of crores of people. We have to make govt responsible for this".

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<ul><li><keyword id="55910" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Air-Pollution">Air pollution</keyword> in the city has hit the severe plus category with several parts recording a 1,000 above Air Quality Index (AQI).</li><li>Right now, stepping out in the <keyword id="2620149" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Delhi-air">Delhi air</keyword> is equal to smoking 33 cigarettes a day.</li><li>A public health emergency has been declared in the national capital.</li></ul>India’s National Capital <keyword id="66" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Delhi">Delhi</keyword> is choking. Air pollution in the city has hit the severe plus category with several parts recording a 1,000 above Air Quality Index (AQI). The Delhi government issued a public health emergency and has requested people to stay indoors as much as possible. Right now, stepping out in the Delhi air is equal to smoking 33 cigarettes a day. The visuals of the city paint a picture of helplessness and despair. <div type="Slideshow" msid="71888247" hostid="261" title="Shocking images of India's national capital Delhi breathing toxic air that is equal to smoking 33 cigarettes a day" firstImageMsid="71888248" slideCount="7"></div>

Shocking images of India's national capital Delhi breathing toxic air that is equal to smoking 33 cigarettes a day

Just a few days after Delhi was declared a 'gas chamber' choking its own citizens, now the western city of Lucknow is going through its worst phase of consistent bad air quality. While residents have been requesting the government to devise a way to curn the unrelenting smog, <keyword id="108320" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="IIT-Kanpur">IIT Kanpur</keyword> researchers already seem to have a plan - creating <keyword id="1116741" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Artificial-Rains">artificial rains</keyword> through cloud-seeding. It’s a practice of artificially inducing or increasing precipitation through clouds by adding external agents. This stimulation is done by aeroplanes or rockets. Pollution levels in several cities of the north western state of Uttar Pradesh were recently declared ‘dangerously polluted’. Varanasi was declared the most polluted city in the country. A report by the <keyword id="67999" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Central-Pollution-Control-Board">Central Pollution Control Board</keyword> (CPCB) has found that the air quality of holy city Varanasi is most polluted among the 42 cities monitored recently. Following this, the Director of IIT Kanpur, Manindra Agarwal told the media that the state government has asked the civil aviation ministry for its approval regarding artificial rains since the area where artificial rains are required need cloud cover. IIT Kanpur was given a grant of Rs 15 lakh from the state government to experiment on the option of artificial rains. The scientists have finished their experiments and are ready to execute. The UP residents therefore will soon see airplanes flying over Lucknow to create artificial rains to bring down the pollution levels. IIT-K has even agreed to modify its six-seater Cessna aircraft to load it with salt for being dropped on the high altitude 'supercooled' clouds. “The measure will definitely reduce air pollution levels. Aerospace, civil engineering and industrial management engineering departments are working on this project,” said Agarwal. How far will this help bring the pollution levels down in Uttar Pradesh, and the rest of the country is being questioned by human rights organisations across India.

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No sooner has Diwali festivity ended than New Delhi has choked into an endless maze of pollution. Since a week, the inhabitants in Delhi have been inhaling particulate matter (PM) - both 2.5 micrometers and 10 micrometers - composed of dust, dirt, smoke, chemicals, etc., a deadly combination which enters the blood stream through one's lungs and causes cancer. 
 
The central pollution monitoring agency data revealed that concentrations of Particulate Matter or PM 10 (coarser pollutants) was over 1,600 micrograms per cubic metre compared to a safe level of 100 at around 2 am in Delhi's Anand Vihar. At Mathura Road, the Air Quality Index or AQI clocked at 488, almost 10 times over the standard limit. Lodi Road, the heart of Delhi with decent greenery showed AQI of 500. 
 
Moreover, the drop in temperature with low wind speed has buoyed up the pollution level. High speed wind might have dispersed the pollutants in the air. 
It’s definitely a case of serious concern. It can never be made foolproof but there are a few ways to combat the consequences. 
 
Here are eight best ways to stay safe from pollution.

Delhi's pollution just reached a record-breaking high: Here are 8 ways to combat the scary smog

China's smog - which routinely engulfs major cities like <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/china-smog-2014-1">Beijing</a> and <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/shanghai-smog-2013-12">Shanghai</a> - is notorious, and it's recently reached "<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/smog-hits-danger-levels-in-beijing-2014-1" target="_blank">danger levels</a>." But the the smog in New Delhi, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/26/world/asia/beijings-air-would-be-step-up-for-smoggy-delhi.html?hpw&amp;rref=health&amp;_r=0" target="_blank">The New York Times reports</a>, is actually worse.
The air in New Delhi "is more laden with dangerous small particles of pollution, more often, than Beijing's," Gardiner Harris <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/26/world/asia/beijings-air-would-be-step-up-for-smoggy-delhi.html?hpw&amp;rref=health&amp;_r=0" target="_blank">writes</a>, and "a very bad air day in Beijing is about an average one in New Delhi." 
The death rate due to chronic respiratory diseases is <a href="http://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.main.A866?lang=en" target="_blank">higher in India than anywhere else in the world</a>.
It was <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/smog-hits-danger-levels-in-beijing-2014-1" target="_blank">big news</a> when a measure of the concentration of fine particulate matter - the very dangerous air pollution that is absorbed into your lungs - climbed over 500 in Beijing. But Delhi had already reached those "danger levels" on eight separate days this year, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/26/world/asia/beijings-air-would-be-step-up-for-smoggy-delhi.html?hpw&amp;rref=health&amp;_r=0" target="_blank">Harris writes</a>.
Here's what smoggy Delhi looks like on the ground.
<div class="KonaFilter image-container"><div class="image"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wili/295189351/">wili_hybrid / Flickr</a>A New Delhi sunset. "The air was so full of smog particles," the photographer wrote, "that the sun often disappeared completely into the fog."</div></div><div class="KonaFilter image-container"><div class="image"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/noii/2424727254/">Ben Dalton / Flickr</a>Here the morning smog is so thick you can barely make out the famous Jama Masjid in the distance.</div></div><div class="KonaFilter image-container"><div class="image"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/footfun/3089166157">Evan Lovely / Flickr</a>Delhi's smog viewed from above.</div></div><div class="KonaFilter image-container"><div class="image">B Mathur / ReutersIndia's presidential palace, Rashtrapati Bhavan, engulfed in smog.</div></div><div class="KonaFilter image-container"><div class="image">Mansi Thapliyal / ReutersThick smog hangs over Delhi's polluted river Yamuna.</div></div>

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