PUTRAJAYA, April 4 -- New Covid-19 testing test kits which promise an 80 per cent accuracy rate are due to arrive on Malaysian shores next week, the Ministry of Health's (MOH) director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said today.

In a press conference at MOH's headquarters here, Dr Noor Hisham said that the manufacturer of the test kit had given the assurance on the accuracy prospect.

"So we hope that we will have a reliable test kit. We have been assured that next week, we have another test kit coming from Korea, so we are looking forward.

"They promised us that this has more than 80 per cent accuracy. So if it's 80 per cent accuracy, we can use it, but if it's 50 per cent accuracy, it's very difficult for us to use because there...