FILE PHOTO: A residential building is seen shrouded in smog in Noida on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, November 14, 2020. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Toxic air killed more people in India in 2019 than in 2017, The Lancet said in a report https://secure.jbs.elsevierhealth.com/action/getSharedSiteSession?rc=1&redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thelancet.com%2Fjournals%2Flanplh%2Farticle%2FPIIS2542-5196%2820%2930298-9%2Ffulltext shared by the government on Tuesday, with 1.67 million deaths accounting for 18% of all fatalities.
India, whose cities top global pollution lists, faces a growing economic as well as human toll from bad air quality, which was linked to 1.24 million, or 12.5% of total deaths in the previous such study for 2017.
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