Health DG: Testing of asymptomatic individuals should only be done in specific instances


PETALING JAYA: Widespread testing of Covid-19 among asymptomatic individuals is not currently recommended, says the Health director-general.

In a tweet on Tuesday (July 6), Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah (pic) quoted the latest World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines, which recommended that testing of asymptomatic persons be done in specific instances and not en masse.

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