‘Pollution India’s top risk factor for deaths’, Air Pollution kills 1.2L infants in India in 2019

Long-term exposure to air pollution contributed to around 6.7 million deaths globally from stroke, heart attack, diabetes, lung cancer, chronic lung diseases, and neonatal diseases in 2019 with China (1.8 million) and India (1.6 million) together accounting for more than half of such deaths, says the annual 'State of Global Air 2020' report, released on Wednesday.