{"id":137227,"date":"2022-03-22T09:02:17","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T16:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/no-country-met-who-air-quality-standards-in-2021-survey-shows"},"modified":"2022-03-22T09:02:17","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T16:02:17","slug":"no-country-met-who-air-quality-standards-in-2021-survey-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/no-country-met-who-air-quality-standards-in-2021-survey-shows","title":{"rendered":"No country met WHO air quality standards in 2021, survey shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/no-country-met-who-air-quality-standards-in-2021-survey-shows2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SHANGHAI, March 22 (Reuters) \u2014 Not a single country managed to meet the World Health Organization\u2019s (WHO) air quality standard in 2021, a survey of pollution data in 6,475 cities showed on Tuesday, and smog even rebounded in some regions after a COVID-related dip.<\/p>\n<p>The WHO recommends that average annual readings of small and hazardous airborne particles known as PM2.5 should be no more than 5 micrograms per cubic metre after changing its guidelines last year, saying that even low concentrations caused significant health risks.<\/p>\n<p>But only 3.4% of the surveyed cities met the standard in 2021, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iqair.com\/us\/world-air-quality-report\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">data<\/a> complied by IQAir, a Swiss pollution technology company that monitors air quality. As many as 93 cities saw PM2.5 levels at 10 times the recommended level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SHANGHAI, March 22 (Reuters) \u2014 Not a single country managed to meet the World Health Organization\u2019s (WHO) air quality standard in 2021, a survey of pollution data in 6,475 cities showed on Tuesday, and smog even rebounded in some regions after a COVID-related dip. The WHO recommends that average annual readings of small and hazardous [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":600,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1507,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/600"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}