A man takes a selfie beside a lake on a heavily polluted day in Beijing on January 1, 2017. -AFP
BEIJING: Beijing woke on the first morning of the New Year covered in thick toxic fog, with a concentration of harmful particles 20 times higher than international standards.
After a long period of pollution in December, the Chinese capital was again smothered Sunday in an acrid grey haze which limited visibility to a few hundred metres.
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