KUALA LUMPUR: The health ministry aims to increase the rate of Covid-19 testing to 200,000 tests a day, says health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.
He said the 68 laboratories under the ministry had reached 100% capacity with over 76,000 tests a day.
However, private laboratories, and laboratories at university and military hospitals could help increase the capacity to between 150,000 and 200,000 per day so that we can test more samples, he said.
University hospitals were at 27% of their testing capacity, private laboratories 31% and military laboratories at 24%; these facilities could increase their capacity up to 100% to achieve the daily test target.
Late notices from private labs in Selangor
He said a delay in reporting the number of positive cases in Selangor recently was because private laboratories were late to send in the notifications to the ministry.
However, the matter had been resolved with a circular issued to private laboratories and hospitals to immediately lodge the cases into the system.
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