Beijing 'heavy pollution', people go online to breathe

The dense fogs surrounded China's Beijing capital in the past few days, causing health concerns, leaving hundreds of flights canceled.

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The heavily polluted atmosphere made the nasopharyngeal protection devices become expensive, while the figures published by the US embassy in China showed that pollution was so 'bad for health'. , according to AFP.

The main airport in Beijing, the busiest airport in the world, was forced to cancel hundreds of flights due to limited visibility, making passengers extremely angry.

Vision has improved on December 6, but there are still 80 domestic flights and 10 international flights canceled at noon.

Many flights have been canceled (Source: AFP)

'I feel exhausted. It was all due to the dense fog, " wrote a man named Hu Yueyue on Weibo, a popular social network in China, after taking 24 hours to move from Shenzhen to Beijing. According to statistics, on December 6, there were 4.4 million Weibo online comments related to the pollution situation in Beijing.

'I don't know how long I live when I have to breathe this polluted atmosphere all day ,' wrote another.

According to the Global Times newspaper , an online sale has sold up to 100 masks equipped with air filters for a single customer in Beijing. China's largest online sales site, Taobao.com, sold 30,000 masks on Sunday only, the day when the US embassy data in Beijing stood at "dangerous" . Communal flower.

Heavy fog on the road in Anhui City (Source: AFP)

The US embassy has set its own measurement standards, according to experts, which show that the atmosphere in Beijing is extremely polluted.

However, the measurement indicators given by state agencies show that the level of pollution is not so terrible, leading to accusations that the authorities are seeking to lower the severity of the problem. subject, according to AFP.