Pollution kills 54,000 people in Delhi in 2020: Greenpeace Southeast Asia

Mangalore Today News Network

New Delhi, Feb 18, 2021:     According to a Greenpeace Southeast Asia analysis of data from a live Cost Estimator, pollution has claimed approximately 54,000 lives in India’s national capital in 2020.

 

According to the study, poor air quality claimed an estimated 1,60,000 lives in the five largest cities of India, especially in a year when many cities were seeing lower air-pollution levels due to less economic activity amid the Covid-19 lockdown.

The cost estimator also sustained the estimated air pollution-related economic losses in these cities.

An estimated 25,000 deaths in Mumbai in 2020 have been attributed to air pollution. Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad and Delhi estimated an approximate 12,000, 11,000, 11,000, and 54,000 avoidable deaths respectively due to polluted air.

“Despite recording relatively better air quality this year due to strict lockdown, air pollution continues to be a serious public health issue which also drastically impacts our economy. Polluted air increases the likelihood of deaths due to cancer & stroke, a spike in asthma attacks and worsens the severity of Covid-19 symptoms,” says Avinash Chanchal, Climate Campaigner, Greenpeace India.

The environment organisation requested the Governments, corporations and individuals to do more to eliminate air-pollution and make cities clean and green.

Courtesy:India Today