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New Delhi authorities announced on Saturday a one-week closure of schools and said they would consider a “pollution lockdown” to protect citizens from toxic smog. “Schools will be shut so that children don’t have to breathe polluted air,” Delhi’s chief minister, Arvind Kejriwal, told reporters. Delhi is ranked one of the world’s most polluted cities, with a hazardous melange of …

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