While avoiding pollution altogether is impossible, a locally made app called Nafas (breathe) seeks to present easily accessible, real-time data to help people fit their lifestyle to their surroundings. Still, the monitor showed a reading of 180 on the Air Quality Index (AQI) – the equivalent of smoking four cigarettes per day, according to the index. “But the air quality in my backyard was worse than the air quality on the main road in the area, which is notoriously congested with passing vehicles,” Piotr told The Jakarta Post. Francesca Dominici, a biostatistics professor at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health has been studying the effects of air pollution for years. WHO director Maria Neira told The Guardian in 2018 that “air pollution is a global public health emergency”.

Source: The Star July 20, 2021 00:45 UTC