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Air pollution killed over 470,000 newborns according to the State of Global Air 2020 report

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In 2019 air pollution killed 476,000 newborns, with the most important hotspots in India and Sub-Saharan Africa, continually with a replacement global study which said that almost two-thirds of these brutal deaths came from harmful fumes from cooking fuels. A State of Global Air 2020 study released on Wednesday, More than 116,000 Indian infants died from the pollution within the first month of life, and therefore the figure was 236,000 in Sub-Saharan Africa.

The estimates were produced by the United States-based Health Effects Institute (HEI) and therefore the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation’s Global Burden of Disease project. States of Global ait posted on Twitter that “In 2019, air pollution contributed to nearly 500,000 deaths worldwide among newborns in their first month of life, according to the State of Global Air 2020 report.”

Data source: Al Jazeera

TOA Correspondent

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