17:30 Ulaanbaatar Traffic Police provided with smoke masks

Traffic police in the smog-covered Mongolian capital, are now wearing protective face masks while on duty, reports news.mn. According to the MNS 4585:2016 standard, the nitrogen dioxide NO2 level should be 50mkg/m3 in the air; however, traffic police officers inhale more than three to four times this amount of NO2 .