KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 20 -- Health Director-General Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said that Malaysia has done more than enough tests to detect Covid-19, in response to claims that insufficient number of tests are being carried out during the Chinese New Year (CNY) break.

In a Facebook post, Dr Noor Hisham said that there have recently been vocal criticisms against the Ministry of Health (MOH) for allegedly not doing enough tests to detect and contain the Covid-19 spread, especially during the three-day period of Chinese New Year public holiday and weekend on February 12 to February 14.

"As 23 private labs make up 66.7 per cent of the national Covid-19 maximum RT PCR testing capacity (51,208 out of 76,805 RT PCR tests per day), understand...