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Jodie Comer, here in May in New York.
NEW YORK – As Canada is ravaged by multiple wildfires, thick, health-threatening smoke has enveloped New York for the past few days, as you see in our video below. The air quality is so poor that it forced actress Jodie Comer to halt her performance at a Broadway theater on Wednesday, June 7.
“I can’t breathe this air”, launched the actress, who apparently started coughing three minutes after the start of the show. Known in particular for her roles in the series Killing Eve and the Ridley Scott film The last duelshe left the stage after ten minutes and never returned.
It was his understudy, Dani Arlington, who took over. She continued the representation of First Face, a one-woman-show lasting more than an hour and a half. Although much of the audience left the room when Jodie Comer’s departure was announced, the rest of the assembly reserved a nice standing ovation for her replacement, according to Deadline.
As shown by the IQAir.com site, which monitors pollution levels across the planet, the index for New York reached 158 on Wednesday. on a scale of zero to 500, with a concentration of PM2.5 microparticles at a level 14 times higher than World Health Organization standards.
Alert messages and return of the mask
The authorities of the city and the State of New York multiply the alert messages and distribute masks. The air quality being at a level dangerous for health, the authorities even called on people suffering from heart or lung diseases, children, and adults over 65 to stay at home.
While the situation is even worse in the large upscale and green suburbs north of New York, New York State Governor Kathy Hochul indicated that ” all school and extracurricular outdoor activities have been suspended or limited” strictly necessary. Conditions are expected to continue through Thursday and Friday and then potentially extend into the weekend.
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