Delhi air quality improves to 'poor' category as rain brings some relief

The city's Air Quality Index (AQI) was at 273 --'poor'-- at 8 am, according to SAFAR

Delhi's air quality improved to the 'poor' category on Friday as intermittent rains brought some relief in pollution in the national capital.

The city’s Air Quality Index (AQI) was at 273 --'poor'-- at 8 am, according to the Ministry of Earth Sciences' air quality forecast agency SAFAR. Readings below 50 are considered safe, while anything above 300 is considered hazardous or 'severe'. 

On Thursday at 4 pm, Delhi's  24-hour AQI  read 258, according to Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) data. This was after the national capital's AQI on Thursday morning at 8 am was in the 'very poor' category with