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‘The smog could last for weeks’: Masks become a sudden necessity in Singapore’s unhealthy haze

juni 20, 2013by 0

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The iPad at the reception of Singapore’s famous Fullerton Hotel reads 50 to 80 per cent humidity, but outside the air is thick with smoke. Staff point to the outline where the nearby Swissotel, The Stamford, used to be visible. It all but disappeared from view on Wednesday. The average Pollution Standard Index (PSI) – the measurement for air pollution – topped 371, a high for Singapore. A reading between 101 and 200 is considered unhealthy. Anything over 300 is “hazardous”. It is six days since clouds of smoke descended on Singapore, the result of forest fires in neighbouring Sumatra, Indonesia. Blaze season usually runs from…

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