CORONAVIRUS | Government-to-government negotiations have ironed out logistical kinks caused by high demand for the test kits.
| The Health Ministry is expecting to receive antigen rapid test kits ordered from South Korea from as early as this weekend, said Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.
Both PCR and antigen tests can detect the presence of the virus itself, but samples for PCR tests have to sent to one of 43 laboratories nationwide and could take 24 hours to obtain results."Second is that you can do the test at the point-of-care, provided we have a biosafety cabinet. A biosafety cabinet is an enclosed but ventilated laboratory workspace for safely working with materials contaminated with pathogens. It also prevents samples from becoming contaminated by other pathogens.
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