Fine dust reached unsafe levels in 14 areas of greater Bangkok with the worst in the city's Phasicharoen and Bang Phlad districts over the past 24 hours, the Pollution Control Department reported on Thursday morning.
The levels of PM2.5 were measured at 45 stations and readings from 14 stations showed unsafe levels ranging from 51 to 64 microgrammes per cubic metre of air in the 24 hours to 9am. The government-decreed safe threshold is 50mcg.
The worst levels were reported along Phetkasem Road in Phasicharoen district and Charansanitwong Road in Bang Phlad district.
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