delhi’s poor bear the brunt of deadly smog - where to buy car air purifiers

Rickshaw driver Sanjie can only take out a handkerchief to cover the smog.
Despite the rush of many residents to buy protective masks to fight toxic threats, streets in Delhi are packed.
Residents of the world's most polluted capital are selling masks.
Spend more than 300 of Sanjay's day incomeand high-
This air purifier can easily shrink his annual salary.
On Wednesday, Delhi authorities ordered all 6,000 schools to be closed until Sunday, when people with breathing difficulties were told to stay indoors because of choking smog in the north of the country.
In addition to the expensive European air purifiers, residents are beginning to use nose filters, indoor plants and even yoga to ease the crisis.
But doctors say that in this metropolis with a population of 20 million, in the second year of the pollution crisis, all this is not enough to stop death.
Pollution levels in some streets have been 40 times the level of safety recommended by the World Health Organization since Monday, and the weather is still calm, after the year
Crop burning in Punjab has intensified the crisis.
Rickshaw drivers, street vendors and thousands of homeless families endure the pollution that doctors warn of, which can cause irreparable harm to the heart, brain and lungs, especially to children.
While waiting for the passengers, Sanjay breathed a thick poison fog and often couldn't see the other side of the road.
"I have no mask.
The mask is too expensive.
I have a handkerchief, "he told AFP, taking out a cotton square.
However, he knows that putting a rag on the nose and mouth has little effect on the attack of fine particles --
They are small, buried deep in the lungs.
His eyes and throat were scorched.
"My eyes are on fire," he said . " He pulled a eyelid back, showing a bloodshot of anger.
The worker MK Sharma could not afford a haze mask either.
He thought the scarf was wrapped around his face.
A method that motorcyclists and street workers like --
Make things "better" but he's not sure.
"It's better than nothing," said Sharma with hope . "Cheap, bad.
What Rupesh Kumar can afford is a fabric mask that fits.
"I want to save myself from Delhi," he told AFP . ".
Nearby, wealthy drich lined up to come to a small shop that sells a neoprene mask with a carbon net designed to filter harmful particles.
Panic in the crowd rose as vendors dropped their blinds and announced that most of the sizes were sold out.
"Oh my God, are you finished?
It was a disaster, "said Sue, a foreign woman who refused to give her second name and her little daughter was by her side.
The lucky man took a mask and tore the package apart and put it on the child on the sidewalk.
An older woman was distressed when she learned a mask of 2,500 rupees.
"It's really too much.
I can't handle it, "she said, shaking her head.
At a nearby store, office staff Apurva covered his mouth with his sleeves and purchased two air purifiers to supplement the air purifiers already at home.
"Every room needs one because it's crazy," she told AFP . "end machines.
Many joggers and dog walkers in rocky garden park don't look worried, and the vast majority of residents who don't wear masks join in.
Children play cricket, lovers canoe, people read newspapers in the smog, the smog is so big that the Islamic monuments in the park are almost invisible in the dark.
A daily-walking retiree told AFP that he was not worried about health threats because he had no asthma.
"I can walk without a mask.
I'm not bothered by the weather, "said Rammi Bakshi, a Delhi resident for a lifetime, reflecting a widespread belief that winter smoke is seasonal.
At the Indian Gate, which is now almost invisible behind the smoke screen, Pushkar Rai scoffed at the suggestion that smoke would stop his cricket match.
"We are spiritual people and we like yoga and meditation, which will be eliminated (the pollution)
Adding sugar cane also helps clean the lungs of pollutants, he told AFP.
"We are Indians. we never worry about such things here.