Delhi's overall air quality was recorded in the "poor" category as the Air Quality Index dropped to 292 early Friday, according to SAFAR (System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research).

SAFAR forecast that the AQI could touch 383 (very poor category) during the day.

It showed a slight improvement on Thursday, October 23, but remained in the "very poor" category for the fourth consecutive day. The city’s 24-hour average AQI stood at 305 at 4 pm on Thursday, according to the CPCB.

Around 8 am on Friday, Anand Vihar recorded an AQI of 402 -- the highest among all the monitoring stations.

Burari crossing recorded 333 AQI, Bawana recorded 345 AQI and the air quality near ITO was also recorded in the "very poor" category at 313.

According to the CPCB, an AQI between zero and 50

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