Contract doctors: PM statement only sugarcoating, strike is on
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A nationwide protest by government contract doctors will go ahead as planned this Monday, said its organiser, despite Putrajaya making last-minute offers to appease them yesterday.
The group spearheading the Hartal Doktor Kontrak movement said the solutions offered by the government in Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin s statement yesterday, were only half-cooked and only intended to keep them quiet. Offering us another year of contract is not a solution; it’s a sugarcoated statement to shut us up. We know well how the system works, we are not.
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Self-testing for Covid-19
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Key Highlights
To date, three antigen rapid test kits have been approved:
1) Salixium (91.4% sensitivity; 100% specificity) - Saliva and nasal swab (Malaysia)
2) Gmate (90.9% sensitivity; 100% specificity) - Saliva (South Korea)
3) Beright (90.1% sensitivity; 99.3% specificity) - Saliva (China)
How to make sense of the performance metrics? Sensitivity means the rate at which the kit will correctly identify a positive result while specificity means the rate at which it will correctly detect negative results.
91.4 percent sensitivity means out of 100 tests, 8.6 of them could be false negatives. 100 percent specificity means there won t be any false positives.
Errors can be minimised by taking more than one test. You should note that these test kits are not authoritative tools to confirm if you have Covid-19.