Health warnings issued as air pollution chokes Bangkok

By Agence France-Presse

Mar 10, 2023 12:28 am

(UPDATE) BANGKOK: Nearly 200,000 people in Thailand have been admitted to the hospital because of air pollution this week, officials said, with Bangkok shrouded in a harmful haze.

The Thai capital, home to an estimated 11 million people and one of the world's most popular tourist destinations, has been blanketed for days by an unpleasant yellow-gray mixture of vehicle fumes, industrial emissions and smoke from agricultural burning.

In this file photo taken on March 7, 2023 the 69-meter tall giant Buddha statue of Wat Paknam Phasi Charoen temple is seen amid smoggy conditions due to air pollution in Bangkok. AFP PHOTO

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