WHO: Over 6,000 people in Serbia die annually due to air pollution

In an interview with the Belgrade Danas daily, Ivanis said that in the polluted air the microparticles were most dangerous.

They enter deeply into the lungs and then spread through the organism carried by the blood.

Those damages blood vessels and causes stroke and heart attack, but also asthma, bronchitis and lung cancer, according to Ivanis.

He said the level of pollution depended, besides environmental protection and other factors, on the geographic position of a country.

"In Serbia, the air pollution rises during winter because of heating based on solid fuels," Ivanis added.

He said Serbia’s population was well informed about the air pollution since there was information which people could follow and adjust their life to that.