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Escalation of COVID-19 testing in Malaysia
The escalation of COVID-19 testing service was started from February 2020 onwards. The
maximum capacity now is 36,812 tests per day. There are 56 laboratories involved in the
upscale of the laboratory testing:
❏ 6 from IMR and National Public Health Laboratories,
❏ 18 from MOH hospital laboratories,
❏ 2 from ATM,
❏ 12 from universities,
❏ 1 from MOSTI and
❏ 17 from private laboratories.