The Health director-general said the RTK-Ag should also be performed within the first five to seven days following the onset of symptoms for best results.
“RTK-Ag testing confirmatory is recommended when the health system is overburdened. Test kits sensitivity must be more than 80% and specificity more than 97%, ” he said in his Twitter post on Friday , listing five general recommendations for RTK-Ag testing for Covid-19 confirmatory. Recently, Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin was reported as saying that Malaysia was one of the first few countries in the world to use RTK-Ag as Covid-19 screening test and the Health Ministry had been using it since June last year.
DGHisham Dr_ASinghR DrDzul drmusanordin malaysia_covid Are the test kits (RTK-Ag) brought in by private clinics/hospitals have acceptable sensitivity and specificity? Who is monitoring? Otherwise useless and ppl are wasting their money getting tested.
Due to strict rules it ll be worse conditions
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