Excessive focus of mud is within the air, the federal government’s Air High quality Monitoring Community warned on Monday earlier than advising susceptible teams of society to remain indoors.
The small dimension of respirable particles in mud are dangerous to well being, an announcement additionally mentioned.
“Employers should take applicable measures – organizational and/or technical – after assessing any dangers that their workers could face whereas working in open areas, and it is suggested that employees in such areas use applicable means of private safety,” it added.
Particularly, the most recent hourly mud concentrations measured at 8:00 am within the following areas are:
Lefkosia: 122.4 μg/m3
Lemesos: 72.4 μg/m3
Larnaka: 81 μg/m3
Pafos: 89.4 μg/m3
Paralimni: 50.8 μg/m3
Zygi: 50.9 μg/m3
Ayia Marina Xyliatou: 49 μg/m3
Extra data on the measured pollutant concentrations and real-time updates is on the market on-line at www.airquality.gov.cy