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<p>Bangkok city employees have been told to work from home to avoid harmful air pollution, as a layer of noxious haze blanketed the Thai capital on Thursday.</p><p>City authorities asked for cooperation from employers to help workers in the city of some 11 million people avoid the pollution, which is expected to last into Friday.</p><p>The air monitoring website IQAir ranked Bangkok among the 10 most polluted cities in the world on Thursday morning.</p><p>Levels of the most dangerous PM2.5 particles -- so tiny they can enter the bloodstream -- were more than 15 times the World Health Organization&#x27;s annual guideline, according to IQAir.</p><p>Bangkok governor Chadchart Sittipunt said late Wednesday that all city employees would work from home on Thursday and Friday.</p><p>&quot;I would like to ask for cooperation from the BMA network of about 151 companies and organizations, both government offices and the private sector,&quot; he said in a statement, adding that more than 60,000 people were affected.</p><div><a href="https://news2.abs-cbn.com/ancx/travel/destination/12/16/22/how-to-make-the-most-of-your-short-thailand-getaway">How to make the most of your short Thailand getaway</a></div><p>BMA is an abbreviation for the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration.</p><p>Chadchart said at least 20 of Bangkok&#x27;s 50 districts were expected to have unhealthy levels of PM2.5 particles, and the problem would linger because of calm weather.</p><p>Air quality in Thailand regularly plummets in the early months of the year as smoke from farmers burning stubble in the fields adds to industrial emissions and vehicle exhaust fumes.</p><p>Bangkok and the northern city of Chiang Mai ranked among the most polluted cities in the world on a number of days last year.</p><p>A public health crisis is brewing over the problem, with at least two million people in Thailand needing medical treatment because of pollution in 2023.</p><p>The government of Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, which took over in August, has promised to make tackling air pollution a &quot;national agenda&quot;, and a draft Clean Air Act was endorsed by his cabinet last month.</p><p>But the problem persists, and a court in Chiang Mai last month ordered the government to come up with an urgent plan to tackle air pollution within 90 days.</p><div><strong>© Agence France-Presse </strong></div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div>

<p>Bangkok city employees have been told to work from home to avoid harmful air pollution, as a layer of noxious haze blanketed the Thai capital on Thursday.</p>

Bangkok city employees have been told to work from home to avoid harmful air pollution, as a layer of noxious haze blanketed the Thai capital on Thursday.

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Bangkok says work from home as pollution blankets city

Agence-France-Presse

Published February 15, 2024 01:37 PM PHT

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