MOH to increase daily lab test capacity to 22,000 - Noor Hisham

UPDATED 7PM | Added Noor Hisham comments on PPE supply and blood donation.

CORONAVIRUS | The Health Ministry (MOH) is expecting that its capacity to process Covid-19 samples daily to increase to 22,000 soon, with two new systems installed at its facilities in Kuala Lumpur and Kota Kinabalu.

According to Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah, the BGI automated processing system placed at the Institute for Medical Research (IMR) and Queen Elizabeth Hospital (HQE) are capable of processing a total of 6,000 samples daily...