
Weekly Covid Cases Double in Chiang Mai
The number of new weekly Covid-19 cases in Chiang Mai has doubled after the Songkran festival.
The number of new weekly Covid-19 cases in Chiang Mai has doubled after the Songkran festival.
Chiang Mai residents and academics filed a lawsuit at the Administrative Court against caretaker Prime Minister Gen. Prayut Chan-ocha, the National Environmental Board, and the Securities and Exchange Commission for failing to solve the dust pollution in the northern provinces.
Working from home is one of eight measures Chiang Mai issued to cope with the air pollution in the province.
PM2.5, the tiny particles in the air is shrouding the northern province of Chiang Mai as officials are struggling to contain forest fires.
Chiang Mai was at one point the world’s worst polluted city Thursday with a USAQI of 174, according to a live ranking by IQAir.com
Chiang Mai was ranked the world’s fifth most polluted city for air quality on Wednesday morning, according to Iqair.com as a doctor advised local residents to wear N95 masks.
Chiang Mai’s Muang district has been shrouded in toxic haze as the city was ranked third on Iqair’s list of most polluted city in the world on Tuesday morning.
The northern province of Chiang Mai on Wednesday was blanketed with haze from forest fires while the visibility was reduced, many people suffer eye and nose irritation.
The website: numbeo.com, a crowd-sourced global database of perceived cost of living, property prices, and quality of life, ranks Chiang Mai province at 32nd in its Crime Index and Safety Index by City 2023. With this, the province becomes the safest city in the Southeast Asian region.
Doi Inthanon in Chiang Mai province frosted over this morning when the mercury dropped to 4 degrees Celsius. Simultaneously tourists packed the Kew Mae Pan viewpoint on the mountain.
An earthquake measuring 4.1 on the Richter scale in Doi Saket district of Chiang Mai shook people in Chiang Mai, Lamphun and Phayao provinces.
Floods slightly subsided in communities and business areas in the heart of the northern province but were still deeper than one meter at some locations. Meanwhile, spreading floodwater reached the archeological site of Wiang Kum Kam.