Favourable weather patterns and the lockdowns many countries enforced to counter the spread of COVID-19 helped improve air quality, said the report -- but only up to a point.
Most European Union states still exceeded EU legal limits for pollutants during this period in at least one area.
And people in southern Europe are exposed to the highest concentrations of ozone, as sunlight helps form it.
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