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AGRA: Six cities of Uttar Pradesh were among the nine most polluted cities in the country on Friday with “severe” air quality and an AQI of over 400 (PM 2.5/PM 10). “Every second patient in my hospital complaints about sore throat with cough and this is not because of bacteria but due to poor air quality”, he said. Continuous exposure to such air quality are now affecting even healthy persons. He said, “there is a dire need to address this issue as there is not one but many factors responsible for the poor air quality including vehicular pollution, dust due to construction activities and burning of solid water in open”.Environmentalist, Dr Sharad Gupta, also a paediatrician said, “We are living in a gas chamber and this is because of poor air quality”. He said that number of patients with respiratory disorder have been increasing day by day..