PUBLISHED : 31 Mar 2024 at 16: 18 Smog blankets Chiang Mai on Sunday earlymorning. (Photo: Panumate Tanraksa) Sunday earlymorning, the northern province of Chiang Mai was blanketed with a thick haze, with a contamination level over 20 times greater than the World Health Organization (WHO) thinksabout safe. Residents in the city stated the haze, obviously gotworse by wildfires, was so thick that it obstructed the view of the Doi Suthep. At 8am on Sunday, the province was ranked as the city with the second-worst air contamination in the world. According to https://www.iqair.com/th/thailand/chiang-mai, the concentration of PM2.5 ultra-fine dust was at a red level, 22.2 times what the WHO thoughtabout safe. Based on information from cmuccdc.org of Chiang Mai University, the greatest reading throughout the preceding 24 hours was tape-recorded
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