New labs roped in as Sabah seeks to boost testing, clear backlog

COVID-19 | The Sabah government hopes to clear a backlog in Covid-19 testing within the next four days, after appointing three private hospitals and laboratories on Monday to help cope with the influx of test samples.

Bernama quoted Sabah Local Government and Housing Minister Masidi Manjun as saying that the Sabah Health Department currently has 10,400 outstanding samples to tests for the presence of the coronavirus...