The Health Ministry of Ukraine said that the concentration of air pollution in Kyiv and Kyiv Oblast has not reached a critical level.
“I recommend [citizens] to limit staying in the open air, to carry wet cleaning in the house, to drink a lot of water and fermented dairy products,” Head of State Sanitary Epidemiological Service Sviatoslav Protas said at a briefing in Kyiv on Sept. 3.
He says as a result of burning bogs in Kyiv and Kyiv Oblast on Sept. 3, air pollution exceeded normal levels from between 2 to 18 times depending on each district.
Protas said that Kyiv city state administration regularly measures the air pollution level and has forecast that depending on weather conditions the current situation might continue for several days up to 1-2 weeks.
For his part, deputy health minister Viktor Shafransky said that the air pollution indicators are not critical and that the air is not currently harmful.
