FILE PHOTO: Boats are seen at the Dalian Bay shrouded in haze on a polluted day in Liaoning province, China October 22, 2019. REUTERS/Stringer
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's air quality saw "incomparable" improvements in the first quarter of this year as a coronavirus outbreak led to rapid declines in industrial activity and transportation, an environment ministry official said on Friday.
The number of "blue sky days" rose by 6.6 percentage points in the first quarter of 2020, said Liu Bingjiang, head of the air pollution office at the Ministry of Ecology and Environment.
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