‘Step up testing with PCR method’


KUALA LUMPUR: One of the eight Chinese health experts who are here to share their experiences in tackling Covid-19 recommends that Malaysia extend its testing of the disease using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method to those aged above 50 as the country begins to relax the movement control order (MCO).

Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital associate chief physician of intensive care unit Dr Wen Miaoyun said after the lockdown in Wuhan was lifted, China stepped up its

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