"I want to stress a matter that we shouldn't take lightly — are these numbers (Malaysia's daily COVID-19 cases) real? If you compare to countries with a similar population size — Australia, Malaysia, Canada — our testing capacity is too low. We want to know the total infections, which is connected to the total tests done. We test 10,000 people in a cluster, we'll get 1,000 (cases). If we test 100, we may get one. So, in order to safeguard public safety, testing capacity must increase."
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Anwar Ibrahim (2020) cited in: "Anwar, MPs Question Malaysia’s Covid-19 Testing Rate And Accuracy" in CodeBlue, 15 July 2020.
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