br pThe Indian Medical Association declareda a public health emergency in New Delhi on Tuesday, November 7, as the System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research predicteda “severe” levels of airborne pollutants for the next three days.ppA resident of Noida, a city just outside New Delhi, filmed the thick smog clouding the air outside of his apartment early on November 8. The previous day he captured the extremely low visibility caused by the air pollution as he was driving his car.ppThe association’s president, Dr Krishan Kumar Aggarwal, said on Facebooka that the Air Quality Index reading in many parts of Delhi and the National Capital Region had surpassed 1,000. The highest and most hazardous reading on the Air Quality Index’s websitea stops at 500.ppArvind Kejriwal, chief minister of Delhi, tweeteda, “Delhi has become a gas chamber.