Health Ministry to conduct trials on Covid-19 swab test kits
| The Health Ministry will begin trials soon on the Covid-19 swab test kits that can produce results in three hours and with higher accuracy, according to Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah and we will test them soon," he reportedly said, adding that the three-hour mark is down from seven hours and with a 99 percent accuracy rate.
Since last Thursday, tests have been conducted on visitors entering Singapore with fever or respiratory symptoms, but are not defined as being a “clinical suspect case”., tests using the kits have been conducted on visitors to Singapore who were not defined as "clinical suspect cases" - from lower-risk symptomatic travellers - since last Thursday.
Malaysia's Health Ministry, in collaboration with private hospitals and 11 healthcare providers, had on Mondaya service to collect samples for Covid-19 testing from homes of individuals who wished to test for the disease but do not meet the patient-under-investigation criteria.
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