North Korea warns its citizens of Yellow Dust
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10Pointer
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Environment
- Published
27th Oct, 2020
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- North Korea has urged its citizens to remain indoors to avoid contact with a mysterious cloud of ‘yellow dust’ which is blowing in from China.
- There are speculations that the cloud could bring Covid-19 with it.
- It is also known as yellow dust, yellow sand, yellow wind or China dust storms.
- It actually consists of sand from deserts in China and Mongolia that high speed surface winds carry into both North and South Korea during specific periods every year.
- The sand particles tend to mix with other toxic substances such as industrial pollutants.
- Thus, it is known to cause a number of respiratory ailments.
