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Air pollution in Hanoi in recent days has been so severe that health experts have warned people to stay indoors.

The worsening smog has been covering the Thai capital city of Bangkok, with hazardous particulate pollution recorded in some areas on January 22.

Thailand plans to deploy rainmaking planes to seed clouds to tackle air pollution that has worried Bangkok capital city in recent weeks.

The first week of July witnessed an improvement in Hanoi’s air quality, according to the city’s Environment Protection Authority under the Department of Natural Resources and Environment.

The Live & Learn organization and the (USAID jointly held a conference in Hanoi on June 7 aiming to share solutions and mobilise actions to improve air quality in Hanoi.

Air quality in Hanoi has seen improvement in the first four months of the year, but not in all parts of the city.

Residents in Bangkok, Thailand were warned on Feb. 8 the city’s air quality had hit dangerous levels just days after the country’s pollution control agency appealed to residents to wear face masks.

Alarming pollution readings were recorded in the capital of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City in the previous year, heard a conference jointly held by the Green Innovation and Development Centre (GreenID) and the Vietnam Live and Learn Centre for Environment and Community in Hanoi on January 30.

Hanoi will roll out action programmes and plans to improve air quality in the city based on the outcomes of a French-funded air quality assessment project, said a municipal leader.

Standards on emission concentration in Vietnam are below international standards.More pollutants in Vietnam, therefore, can be emitted than in other countries.

Air pollution in the capital city of Hanoi, which has been bad since March 7, is so severe now that health experts have warned people to stay indoors.

HCM City will publish air and water quality indexes on 48 electronic screens across the city, starting later this month, according to the municipal Department of Natural Resources and Environment.

The Hanoi People’s Committee on January 9 launched an online service with information about weather conditions and environment indexes, including air quality index, rainfall and flooding.