Sydney gasps for air as Australia haze reaches record levels

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Smoke from widespread bushfires causes spike in hospital visits and poor visibility for drivers. FMTNews

Smoke hangs over Sydney even as cooler change brought some relief for firefighters battling wildfires across the country.

The bushfires have pushed the harbour city into a rare appearance this week in the top ten cities with the worst air pollution in the world. Having reached as high as No 8, Sydney was sitting at No 10 on the Air Visual global rankings on Friday morning, above Jakarta and Shenzhen, and just below Mumbai and Kolkata.

Workers heading into the city and children going to school donned masks to deal with the hazardous air quality while 55 bush and grass fires still burned across the state after two weeks. Bushfires have already left at least four people dead and destroyed more than 400 homes across two states since the start of November. Fires are still burning in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Queensland states.

 

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