News about testing

Media Statement by Tony Pua, DAP National Publicity Secretary and Member of Parliament for Damansara in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday, 21 July 2021: Based on rising positivity rate of around 10% today, we are severely under-testing for COVID-19 to detect cases and outbreaks in the community.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 20): Mobilus Sdn Bhd has welcomed the arrival of the first automated rapid transit (ART) system into Johor, which is set to be the site for a bus pilot testing programme to be launched in Iskandar Malaysia in the first quarter of 2021.

KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 10): The Health Ministry today identified five more Covid-19 clusters, with two each in Kuala Lumpur and Johor, and one in Selangor, that cumulatively have 122 infections.

KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 1): Tiong Nam Logistics Holdings Bhd said there is no material financial and operational impact resulting from the halt in operations of a warehouse in Johor for the purpose of Covid-19 testing of its workers.

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 25): Bukit Gasing assemblyman Rajiv Rishyakaran (pictured) is organising a reduced cost Covid-19 testing for all residents of Selangor and others in Malaysia.

PETALING JAYA (Nov 6): Bukit Gasing assemblyman Rajiv Rishyakaran yesterday announced his office will be subsidise the cost of Covid-19 testing for the residents of his ward.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 12): The Ministry of Health (MoH) has confirmed a viral social media post that a foreign barber has tested positive for Covid-19.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 9): Measures, safeguards and precautions have to be in place before travel can start between Singapore and Malaysia, Channel News Asia (CNA) reported a Singapore minister saying yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 6): The number of positive Covid-19 cases in the country is not expected to see another spike after Thursday's record high of 277 new infections, according to Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah in a Malaysiakini report today.

KUALA LUMPUR (May 26): The Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) said today it fully supports Malaysian Medical Association (MMA) president Dr N Ganabaskaran's call on employers to improve the poor living conditions of foreign workers in the country and recognise the fact that merely testing their employees would be insufficient to prevent an outbreak of Covid-19.