PUTRAJAYA, April 16 -- Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the South Korean Covid-19 test kits the Ministry of Health (MOH) evaluated showed 84.4 per cent sensitivity and 100 per cent specificity to the coronavirus.

In a press conference here, the Health director-general said that the ministry has also started procuring the antigen test kits, and was aiming for wider screenings in an effort to contain the Covid-19 outbreak.

"Now the good news is that I told you last week that we are testing the South Korean test kits. Now with the SD Biosensor, we have tested and the good news is that the sensitivity we are looking into is 84.4 per cent and the specificity for the test is 100 per cent. So now, if we were to use the fluorescent reader, th...