All schools under the supervision of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) have been ordered closed from Wednesday until Friday, as air quality in the capital worsened and the situation is likely to persist due to poor air circulation and accumulation of PM2.5 dust in the atmosphere, Thai PBS reported Tuesday.
City Hall spokesman Pongsakorn Kwanmuang on Tuesday said that the city administration will ask high-rise and the electric train construction sites to suspend operations until Friday.
The whole of Bangkok and its vicinity were found to contain excessive amounts of PM2.5 dust on Tuesday morning, measured at between 55-90 microns, according to the Pollution Control Department.
62 air quality measurement stations in Bangkok and neighbouring provinces, including Samut Prakan, Samut Sakhon, Nonthaburi and Pathum Thani, show the health threatening levels of PM2.5, which exceed the 50-micron safety threshold. The highest level was found at Tambon Paknam in Muang district of Samut Prakan.
In the eastern province of Rayong, the PCD reported this morning that air quality readings show the level of PM2.5 ranging from 58 to 118 microns in Tambon Huay Pong, Tambon Noen Phra, Tambon Tapong and Tambon Map Ta Pud in Muang district and Tambon Tha Toom in Sri Mahapo district.
In the northernmost province of Mae Hong Son, the highest level of PM 2.5 was reported in Tambon Chong Kham in Muang district, at 125.
This news article is taken from Thai PBS