Saharan dust degrades air quality - NEPA reports uptick in harmful pollutants as health officials urge vulnerable to limit exposure
The air quality over sections of Kingston and St Andrew has deteriorated in recent days as the Saharan dust now drifting across Jamaica has triggered an uptick in particulate matter or PM 2.5 pollutants, the authorities have disclosed.
PM 2.5 is defined by the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) as the “finer fraction of particulate matter that can lodge deep in the lungs and enter the blood stream”.
6/3/2026 12:56:16 AM