‘Malaysia is edging closer towards its aim of conducting 16,500 Covid-19 tests in a day, says the Health Ministry. Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the country managed to test 13,614 samples on Thursday (April 23) alone.
“We are also looking to optimise our labs with the installation of automated testing devices from the Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI). This will increase our testing capacity... The BGI automated testing device at IMR will increase our testing capacity by another 5,000 a day, while in Sabah, it would give us another 1,000 tests in a day.”
Read here (The Star, April 24, 2020)
