Smoke from West Kalimantan pushes four Sarawak locations into ‘very unhealthy’ zone
KUCHING, Aug 29 — Four locations in Sarawak recorded very unhealthy air quality as of noon on Saturday, after Seri...
Four locations in Sarawak have been pushed into the 'very unhealthy' air quality zone due to smoke from West Kalimantan, according to the Natural Resources and Environment Board's (NREB) Daily Haze Watch. The Air Pollutant Index (API) readings for Lubok Antu, Lundu, Sri Aman, and Serian reached 230, 228, 227, and 204, respectively, surpassing the threshold for 'very unhealthy' air quality.
Eight other locations remained at the unhealthy level, while six recorded moderate air quality. Azuri Azizah Saedon, deputy director-general of the Department of Environment, stated that transboundary smoke from West Kalimantan had been detected moving northwards into western Sarawak, with NOAA-20 satellite imagery detecting 1,738 hotspots in Kalimantan, 36 in Sumatra, and six in Malaysia.
The DoE has intensified enforcement and daily patrols in areas prone to open burning, and activated the National Open Burning Action Plan and National Haze Action Plan.
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