Healthcare workers to be tested twice weekly once new test kits arrive


  • Nation
  • Tuesday, 28 Apr 2020

PUTRAJAYA: Healthcare workers at the Covid-19 frontlines will be tested twice a week once the country begins using antigen rapid test kits.

Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said he expected the 200,000 rapid test kits the government procured from South Korea to arrive by the end of the week.

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