Pakistan's Punjab declared a health emergency due to toxic smog on Friday, banning construction, shutting schools for another week and moving universities online, with a three-day lockdown possible, the province's senior minister said on Friday.

LAHORE, Pakistan A Pakistani province declared a health emergency Friday due to smog and imposed a shutdown in two major cities.Smog has choked Punja..

Pakistan's most populated province of Punjab on Friday extended school closures in smog-hit major cities by a week, as the country battles record

In view of the increasing smog, Pakistan's Punjab province declared a health emergency on Friday, November 15.As per Reuters, the province banned construction, extended school closures for another week and switched universities to

The authorities have also imposed a "health emergency" in Lahore and Multan districts to combat dense smog blanketing the province of about 130 million population for the last few weeks

A Pakistani province declared a health emergency Friday due to smog and imposed a shutdown in two major cities. Smog has choked Punjab for weeks, sickening nearly 2 million people and shrouding vast swathes of the province in a toxic haze.

About 1.93 people across the province experienced respiratory diseases and heart problems amid thick smog in Lahore and other cities.