The data shows “the distance between the EU legal standards, mostly established around the year 2000, and the latest 2021 WHO guidelines based on an in-depth review of the latest scientific evidence on how pollution atmosphere harms health”explained Alberto Gonzalez OrtizEEA air quality expert.
According to the report, citizens of Eastern Europe and Italy are the most affected by the higher concentrations of particles and benzopyrene (a carcinogen), due to the burning of solid fuelssuch as coal and wood, for heating, and use of fossil fuels in industrial production, reported the AFP news agency.
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In this sense, the confinements due to the coronavirus had positive effects on air quality, whose pollution causes cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. But in Europe this is the increased environmental risk to healthsince fine particle pollution caused in 2019 307,000 premature deaths in the EU, according to EEA estimates.
The WHO says that air pollution causes seven million premature deaths a year worldwidea balance that places it at levels close to smoking or poor nutrition.
Source: Ambito
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