Beijing ordered government vehicles off the roads as part of an emergency response to ease air pollution that has smothered China's capital for the past three days, while warning the smog will persist until Jan. 16.
Hospitals were inundated with patients complaining of heart and respiratory ailments and the website of the capital's environmental monitoring center crashed. Hyundai Motor Co. (005380)'s venture in Beijing suspended production for a day to help ease the pollution, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
Official measurements of PM2.5, fine airborne particulates that pose the largest health risks, rose as high as
993 micrograms per cubic meter in Beijing last night, compared with World Health Organization guidelines of no more than
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