Health Ministry will be able to conduct 22,000 Covid-19 tests a day by next week

Published on 27 Apr 2020 7:37:37 PM

The Health Ministry will be able to conduct up to 22,000 tests daily for Covid-19 by next week, says Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.

The Health director-general said that on Monday, adding that the Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI) automated testing device to be used by the Institute for Medical Research and the Kota Kinabalu Public Health Laboratory in Sabah, which could perform 5,000 tests and 1,000 tests, respectively, is an additional capacity of 6,000 tests.

The Health DG also said his ministry’s targeted approach of locality and high-risk groups worked, judging from the movement control order (MCO).

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