Keep Covid-19 self-test kits affordable, says Lee Lam Thye

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PETALING JAYA: Covid-19 self-test kits would allow more people to test for the disease but it must not come with a hefty price tag, says Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye.

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The Alliance for Community chairman lauded the government’s plans to bring the self-test kits to the local market and hoped there were no parties trying to make a profit from the move.

“We must remember that this is not the time to profit from the sale of these self-test kits,” he said in a statement Thursday . On Wednesday , Health Director-General Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the Medical Research Institute was studying two Covid-19 self-test kits that used saliva and found that they had sensitivity levels above 90%.

In May, Dr Noor Hisham indicated that two companies were offering the test kits for sale at local pharmacies.

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