On the morning of Monday, January 22, the air quality in Chernivtsi, Kryvyi Rih and Ivano-Frankivsk deteriorated to harmful levels, with the content of PM2.5 particulate matter reaching 152-156 AQI.
Also, in Kyiv, Uzhhorod, Zaporizhzhia, and Verkhivtseve, the dust content reached 110-139 AQI, which is harmful for sensitive groups, according to the SaveEcoBot online air quality map.
Thus, harmful dust levels were recorded by monitoring stations in:
- Chernivtsi, 9A – 152 Vinnychenka Street;
- Kryvyi Rih on Ivan Avramenko Street, 5 – 156;
- Ivano-Frankivsk on Lenkavskogo Street, 17-155.
In addition, air quality has deteriorated to harmful level for sensitive groups in:
- In Kyiv, Mykola Shepeleva Street, 10 – 122 and Yevheniya Kharchenko Street, 65 – 110;
- the city of Verkhivtseve (Dnipropetrovsk region) at Nova street, 52-A – 139;
- Zaporizhzhia, 27-А – 121, Tbilisi Street;
- Uzhhorod, 17-115 F. Tyhogo Street.
Earlier, EcoPolitic wrote, that in Ivano-Frankivsk on January 15, dangerous levels of dust content PM1, PM2.5 and PM10 were recorded in the air at three monitoring stations.
As EcoPolitic previously reported, a study by scientists from Monash University, Australia, showed that more than 99.9% of people on the planet breathe air with an excessive content of solid particles PM 2.5.
