California wildfire smoke blankets parts of Canada

VANCOUVER - Smoke from California and Oregon wildfires has cloaked Canada's third-largest city of Vancouver - known for its majestic mountain views and fresh ocean breezes - in the dirtiest air in the world this week.

"I'm out of breath all the time, my chest feels like it's exploding, I feel like I'm going to suffocate," Fatima Jaffer, a doctoral student at the University of British Columbia, told AFP.Authorities for the metropolitan region of 2.5 million residents issued daily air quality warnings since Sept 8, with things so bad that Vancouver opened five filtered"clean air shelters.

"I'd just gotten to the place of getting over the fear of Covid-19 and felt like I could breathe again," she said,"and now I literally can't." "For many of us, there's confusion about what symptoms are caused by smoky skies, and what symptoms are caused by Covid-19," Henry told a news conference,"particularly for people who have underlying lung disease, asthma, heart disease and diabetes."

For North Vancouver professional dog-walker Barry Appal, 64, he and his wife 10 years his senior have had to wear masks outdoors and avoid usual strenuous trails.

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