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The air quality in Delhi slipped into the “very poor” category on Sunday as the mercury dropped to 15.8 degrees Celsius, the lowest recorded in October in the last two years.

The city registered an Air Quality Index (AQI) of 324, which falls in the “very poor” category, compared to 292 a day earlier. The AQI had been “poor” the past two days.

Delhi’s Anand Vihar recorded “severe” AQI with a reading of 429, followed by Wazirpur with 400. As many as 28 monitoring stations across the city reported “very poor” air quality with readings above 300, according to data from the Sameer app of the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB).

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As per the CPCB, an AQI between zero and 50 is considered “

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