News about testing

NEW DELHI (Aug 8): Total Covid-19 tally in India rose to 2,088,611 even as the number of deaths swelled to 42,518, said the latest data issued by the federal health ministry on Saturday.

NEW DELHI (Aug 5): India's health ministry on Wednesday announced that the country has surpassed 1.

SAMUT PRAKAN (July 3): Suvarnabhumi Airport and the Public Health Ministry of Thailand has launched the PCR lab for Covid-19 at the airport, which can give a rapid result within 90 minutes.

KUCHING (June 19): Two Indonesian nationals who were reported to have fled after being tested positive for Covid-19 yesterday have been found and taken to the Sarawak General Hospital here.

KUCHING (June 19): Two Indonesians have fled after testing positive for Covid-19 in the mandatory health screening for work permit applications in Sarawak.

SINGAPORE (June 16): Singapore will put in place a testing regime for all incoming travellers entering Singapore from June 18, before the end of their 14-day Stay-Home Notice (SHN).

KOTA KINABALU (June 16): The Sabah government has decided to allow Malaysians wishing to enter the state to do so without having to undergo Covid-19 swab tests during the Recovery Movement Control Order (RMCO) period.

PUTRAJAYA (June 13): Malaysians can now enter Sarawak without having to seek permission from the Sarawak State Disaster Management Committee (SDMC) and take Covid-19 Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) tests prior to leaving for the state, said Senior Minister (Security) Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 13): Police detained five Bangladeshi men in a raid at Jalan Tengkat Tong Shin here on suspicion of falsifying Covid-19 screening test results, said Kuala Lumpur police chief Datuk Seri Mazlan Lazim.

PUTRAJAYA (June 13): The Ministry of Health (MOH) has found that most patients who have recovered from Covid-19 infection still showed positive results for the virus through long-term rt-PCR test.