Seasonal air pollution has long afflicted Thailand, like many countries in the region, as colder, stagnant winter air combines with smoke from crop stubble burning and car fumes.
Level of PM2.5 pollutants -- cancer-causing microparticles small enough to enter the bloodstream through the lungs -- hit 122 micrograms per cubic metre.
Earlier this week, Bangkok authorities said schools in areas with elevated levels of PM2.5 could choose to close.
The facilities range from kindergartens to secondary schools and the closures last from a day to a week.
The figure is the highest number of school closures since 2020, when all schools under BMA authority shut over air pollution.
Officials have also limited access for six-wheel trucks in parts of the capital until late Friday.
But the measures have had little impact so far, and opposition politicians have accused Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra -- currently in Davos for the World Economic Forum -- of failing to take the issue seriously.
“While the prime minister is breathing fresh air in Switzerland as she tries to attract more investment to Thailand... millions of Thais are breathing polluted air into their lungs,“ Natthaphong Ruengpanyawut, leader of the People’s Party, charged in a Facebook post.
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