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No country met WHO air quality standards in 2021 - data

Cars and people move up and down State Street in smog-filled downtown Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S. December 12, 2017. [Reuters]

Not a single country managed to meet the World Health Organization's (WHO) air quality standard in 2021, a survey of pollution data in 6,475 cities showed on Tuesday, and smog even rebounded in some regions after a COVID-related dip.

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