Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah says test capacity has been increased and some tests outsourced.
These measures include increasing testing capacities in laboratories for Reverse-Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction tests and outsourcing tests to private laboratories. Noor Hisham’s remarks come amid calls for mass testing, particularly in Covid-19 hotspots, following the steep rise in cases and deaths in recent weeks.
On average, some 63,925 tests were carried out daily between May 7 and May 13, the statement said. The weekly average of samples tested between the 15th and 18th week of the year was 483,518, an increase of 23.6% from the weekly average of 369,456 tests in the previous month.
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