Covid-19: More companies to provide screening at airports, says Deputy Health Minister


KUALA LUMPUR: More companies will soon provide Covid-19 screening services at Malaysia’s airports, effectively ending the current monopoly held by a private healthcare firm, the Dewan Rakyat was told.

Deputy Health Minister Datuk Dr Noor Azmi Ghazali (pic) said Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad (MAHB) has started a new procurement process by tender to identify additional companies that will perform the Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) screening tests.

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