Health D-G: New labs to be built for higher Covid-19 test capacity
Tuesday, 14 Apr 2020 07:15 PM MYTA medical worker takes a swab at a Covid-19 drive-through screening area at KPJ Ampang Puteri April 9, 2020. — Picture by Hari Anggara
He said these will be situated at the ministry’s offices in Tawau and Sandakan in Sabah, Miri and Bintulu in Sarawak, and Kluang in Johor. As the reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction test can take up to six hours to produce results and was causing a backlog in testing, he said the ministry has learned to optimise the usage of its available resources.
“If the serology test comes out as positive, then we retest the individual using PCR. That way this method helps us to save on PCR usage in labs, as a form of optimisation,” Dr Noor Hisham said.
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