KUALA LUMPUR: The Health Ministry has reiterated that those who tested positive for Covid-19 and have completed quarantine need not undergo further Covid-19 testing.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said ultra-sensitive test methods such as Real-Time Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) will still be able to detect the presence of viral genetic material in respiratory tract samples up to two to three months after infection.
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