PETALING JAYA: Air quality readings improved across Malaysia as at 8pm Saturday (April 22), with only one location recording unhealthy levels.
Data from the Air Pollutant Index of Malaysia website shows that Petaling Jaya is the only location to record an unhealthy air quality reading with the Air Pollutant Index at 111.
At 7am, the API reading for Petaling Jaya showed an unhealthy level of 108 rising to a high of 120 at 5pm Saturday before dropping to 111 at 8pm. Meanwhile, five locations in the country recorded a good API reading of below 50 as at 8pm Saturday. These locations are Tanjung Malim in Perak , Pengerang in Johor, Sandakan and Kimanis in Sabah and Kapit and Sarikei in Sarawak.The air quality in a location is deemed unhealthy if its API reading is between 101-200 and very unhealthy at 201-300.
Four areas that recorded good air quality so far are Tanjung Malim in Perak, Kapit and Sarikei in Sarawak and Sandakan in Sabah. The Natural Resources, Environment and Climate Change Ministry previously announced that it would monitor the current situation and take appropriate measures to deal with any possible consequences of the haze.
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