Ramped-up testing leads to fluctuation in Covid-19 cases


Ragananthini Vethasalam

Malaysian Public Health Physicians Association president Dr Zainal Ariffin Omar says the number of Covid-19 tests conducted should ideally be between 20 and 30 times more than the cases detected. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Nazir Sufari, June 7, 2021.

THE number of Covid-19 cases have been fluctuating in recent weeks due to the number of tests being carried out daily, Health Ministry data have shown.

A total of 32,370 tests comprising RTK-Antigen and RT-PCR tests were conducted on April 11 while 95,676 tests were carried out on May 19.


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