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Uggah says PCR test costly, but worth it

Deputy Chief Minister Douglas Uggah Embas says Sarawak is paying more for the PCR test and hotel quarantine for residents returning from overseas, ‘but it’s saving people’s lives’. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, July 8, 2020.

SARAWAK’S insistence on using the costly and more accurate polymerase chain reaction test on residents returning from overseas is paying off, said Douglas Uggah Embas. The deputy chief minister said this after a fifth Sarawakian got a positive result for Covid-19 from the PCR test upon his return to the state after the antibody rapid test kit used at Kuala Lumpur International Airport during his transit came back negative.

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