coughing

As it gets worse, you start sneezing and coughing.

“More and more people are coming with complaints of asthma, itchy throats and coughing,” says Dr Irfan Malik, a pulmonologist at one of the biggest hospitals in Lahore.

"All official parties were told that this house was being used as a stay-house for journalists. We coordinated with them all," an Al-Jadeed journalist, caked in concrete dust, said in a live broadcast while panting and coughing.

“It smelled like a very strong nail polish or paint smell,” one staffer told The Times while coughing repeatedly.

I woke up in the middle of the night — in that middle part between sleep and awake — to what sounded like a cat coughing up a hairball.