Delhi AQI stays 'very poor', likely to worsen this week: What's behind the air quality drop?

On Sunday as well, the national capital’s AQI remained in the ‘very poor’ category, recording an overall AQI of 366. Three monitoring stations also recorded "severe" air quality above 400, as per data from the CPCB.

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Delhi AQI today

The data also showed that most of the total 39 monitoring stations recorded AQI above 300, falling into the ‘very poor’ category. These included Anand Vihar (371), Bawana (371), Burari Crossing (384), Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium (331), Mundka (343), Narela (386), Rohini (363) and Wazirpur (389).

Many of the neighbouring cities in the National Capital Region (NCR) also recorded ‘very poor’ air quality, including Noida (311), Ghaziabad (334) and Gurugram (304).