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Budapest has the worst air quality in Europe after the epidemic
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Based on the latest report of the European Environment Agency, Budapest is the only city in Europe where the amount of nitrogen dioxide in the air exceeds the level measured before the coronavirus epidemic. Many say that this is because the government allowed free parking in the Hungarian capital, during which more people started to use their cars and sat in traffic jams in the last few weeks.
According to mfor.hu, air pollution decreased globally during the quarantine since fewer people used their cars, and many continued their work from home. As a result, for example, one could see the peaks of the Himalayas in India or the Fuji in Japan from even hundreds of kilometres.
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Clean Air Action Group said, however, that this trend reversed in Hungary, and based on the data of the different monitoring stations in Hungary, the level of nitrogen dioxide gas started to increase again in July, even though it was below the 2019 data last month. Interestingly,
the quantity of the PM2,5 particles (particulate matter) responsible for most of the early deaths
did not decrease during the epidemic. In contrast, it increased in the last few months.
If the increase in vehicle use was for reasons outlined in this article, the vehicles that carried others than the driver, masks should have been worn.
This was not the case observed on just a few occasions, but overall it was practiced.
The strange observation was driver only vehicles, that the driver in fact was wearing a mask.
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