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New Delhi: The Union government on Monday informed the Rajya Sabha that no conclusive data are available in the country to establish a direct correlation between deaths or diseases and air pollution.

Responding to an unstarred question by Trinamool Congress MP Derek O’Brien on deaths attributed to PM2.5, economic losses due to outdoor air pollution and mitigation plans, the Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Prataprao Jadhav informed that air pollution is a triggering factor for several respiratory and related ailments, but multiple variables influence its health impacts.

While responding to another question by Nationalist Congress Party member Supriya Sule in Lok Sabha, he explained that the health effects of air pollution are a “synergistic manifestation” of a set

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