(ANSA) – BRUSSELS, NOV 15 – Also in 2019 Italy is confirmed as one of the EU countries where the health risks are highest, in terms of deaths and years of life lost, due to exposure to smog. According to the 2021 Air Quality Report of the European Environment Agency (Aea), in 2019 our country was the first for the number of deaths from nitrogen dioxide (NO2, 10,640 deaths, + 2% compared to the data of the Report Aea 2020), and is the second after Germany for the risks from fine particulate matter PM2.5 (49,900 deaths, -4%) and ozone (O3, 3,170 deaths, + 5% on 2018).
In the EU27, around 307,000 people died prematurely in 2019 from exposure to PM2.5, 40,400 from NO2 and 16,800 from acute exposure to ozone. Deaths from smog decreased by 16% compared to 2018 and by 33% with reference to 2005. At least 58% of deaths from PM2.5 in the EU, warns the AEA, could have been avoided if all Member States had reached the new WHO parameter for PM2.5 of 5 µg / m3. With the WHO parameters, Italy would have 32,200 fewer deaths (-32,200) from PM2.5. (HANDLE).
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