‘You have two killers in the air’: India’s other deadly pandemic

Twenty-two of the world’s most polluted cities are in India, where deadly air plus COVID-19 is putting millions at risk.

A deadly peril is smothering our cities, killing four times as many people in one year as COVID-19. Across the world nearly nine million died from it in 2018, and in India, it claims the life of one child every three minutes. The peril is pollution and the victims have died simply by breathing in the air around them. Polluted air. Nine million dead. And the source of the toxic fug engulfing cities? Fossil fuels, mostly.