4 kawasan Sarawak catat IPU bahaya, Serian tertinggi 476
Tiga kawasan di Sarawak merekodkan IPU tahap sangat tidak sihat dan kualiti udara di 14 kawasan mencapai tahap tidak sihat.
Four districts in Sarawak have recorded dangerous air quality levels, according to the International Pollution Index (IPU) as of 8 a.m. today, with Serian topping the list at 476, followed by Samarahan (330), Sri Aman (326), and Kuching (317), according to the IPU Management System Portal of the Department of Environment Malaysia.
Meanwhile, three districts in Sarawak have recorded extremely unhealthy IPU levels: Sarikei (267), Sibu (219), and Mukah (214). Of the 14 districts, air quality reached unhealthy levels, with Samalaju the highest at 181, followed by Miri (170), Miri Industrial Training Institute (168), Kapit (164), Bintulu (162), Limbang (159), Sungai Petani in Kedah (157), Labuan (156), Seberang Jaya (155), Seberang Perai (154), Minden in Penang and Tawau in Sabah (152), Taiping in Perak (141), and Politeknik Kota Kinabalu (116).
The IPU scale ranges from 0 to 50, indicating good air quality, 51-100 for moderate, 101-200 for unhealthy, 201-300 for very unhealthy, and over 300 as hazardous. The IPU data is released every hour based on readings from 68 air quality monitoring stations across the country.
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