Slight haze causes unhealthy air quality in Seremban

 

Seremban recorded an ‘unhealthy’ air pollutant index reading this morning, after Cheras reported the same yesterday afternoon.

PETALING JAYA: Seremban in Negeri Sembilan is seeing unhealthy air quality because of a slight haze this morning.

The environment department’s air pollutant index (API) showed an unhealthy level of 103 in Seremban at 6am.

It rose to 111 by 8am and 118 at 10am.

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It is the only location in the country with an API higher than 100.

Yesterday, Cheras in Kuala Lumpur experienced unhealthy air quality with an API level of 119 at 4pm. It dropped to 108 at 9pm and below 100 at 10pm.

An API of zero to 50 indicates good air quality; 51 to 100 moderate; 101 to 200 unhealthy; 201 to 300 very unhealthy; and 300 and above hazardous.

Transboundary haze used to be a recurring issue in Malaysia, largely because of the slash and burn practice of Indonesian farmers as well as peat fires. - FMT