Thailand is preparing face masks for an upcoming regional finance minister and c...
BANGKOK - Thailand is preparing face masks for an upcoming regional finance minister and central bank summit after pollution shot air quality to alarming levels, an official said on Tuesday.
FILE PHOTO: The skyline is seen through polluted air, as classes in over 400 Bangkok schools have been cancelled, due to the worsening air quality in Bangkok, Thailand, January 30, 2019. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha The air quality index in Chiang Rai, where Thailand will host the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors’ meeting this week, reached levels considered unhealthy at 240 to 250, government data shows.Some 300 officials are expected for the meeting, with some already arriving. There are no plans to change the meeting venue or schedules, officials said.
The government has already given out nearly 2 million masks to residents in the area, the Prime Minister Prayuth said. “The smog problem in nine northern provinces is due to agriculture burning in forests, which happens every year,” Sate Sampattagul, Head of the Climate Change Data Center at Chiang Mai University, told Reuters.Reporting by Panarat Thepgumpanat, Orathai Siring and Satawasin Staporncharnchai; writing by Chayut Setboonsarng; editing by Christian Schmollinger
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