Dr Noor Hisham: Malaysia's testing processes adequate

NSTnation Malaysia’s testing and screening processes for Covid19 are adequate and meet the benchmark of the World Health Organisation WHO.

During his media briefing yesterday, Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said that the Health Ministry is doing active case detection for all suspected cases being traced, tested, isolated or treated.

Besides the Health Ministry’s hospitals, which include Sibu Hospital in Sarawak and Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Sabah, testing is also being conducted at the Institute for Medical Research , public health laboratories, private laboratories, 14 university laboratories, as well as the Malaysia Genome Institute and a laboratory under the armed forces.“At the moment, we do not have a test that has very high accuracy.

However, if in 100 tests, only 10 cases are positive, that is adequate in terms of screening and testing for the community.

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