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Coronavirus Is Worsening Delhi’s Air Pollution Crisis
Covid lockdowns have kept migrant farmworkers at home, pushing the crop-burning season further into winter.
The smog is back, and it has an ally in Covid-19.
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The thick smog that blankets northern India with the approach of winter has a particularly grim ally this year: Covid-19.
Air pollution from the annual burning of rice stubble across the states of Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Punjab is reversing the gains that gave the north of the country its cleanest air in two decades under lockdown earlier this year.