Overall air quality throughout the country is expected to be good for the New Year period, according to the Centre for Air Pollution Mitigation.
Atthapol Charoenchansa, the centre spokesman and director-general of the Department of Air Pollution Control, said the forecast was based on PM2.5 dust levels around the country as of 7am on Wednesday.
The average PM2.5 levels for all regions were:
— 9-31 microgrammes per cubic metre (µg/m3) in the North;
— 5-22 µg/m3 in the Northeast;
— 10-29 µg/m3 in the Central and the West;
— 9-16 µg/m3 in the East;
— 8-20 µg/m3 in the South; and
— 10-32 µg/m3 in Bangkok and surrounding provinces.
Levels over 50 µg/m3 are…
