No further testing required after completing quarantine - Health DG

The Health Ministry has reiterated that those who test positive for Covid-19 and have completed quarantine need not undergo further testing.

Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah (above) 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.

“During the viral shedding...