UMS to study effectiveness of Wuhan’s test kit

29 Nov 2020 • 10:33 AM MYT
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Kota Kinabalu: Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) has been entrusted with the responsibility to conduct a study on the accuracy and effectiveness of a Covid-19 test kit manufactured by a company in Wuhan, China.

The study, a collaboration between the university and the Sabah China Chamber of Commerce (SCCC), is aimed at expanding efforts to contain the pandemic in the State.

SCCC Secretary-General Tan Kok Jyh said the test kit was unlike those being used in the field now.

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“We are sensitive towards the virus situation in Sabah and so we managed to obtain this test kit from China to study.

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