Trained Medical Personnel to Explain Nature of Polymerase Chain Reaction Cycle Threshold (CT) Values to COVID-19 Patients and Release CT values to Patients

Assoc Prof Jamus Jerome Lim asked the Minister for Health (a) whether medical personnel are trained to explain the nature of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) cycle threshold (CT) values to COVID‐19 patients; and (b) whether it is in the standard operating procedures not to release the CT values to the COVID‐19 patients when such values are conveniently available in the lab test reports.

Mr Ong Ye Kung: This question for written answer has been addressed by my reply to Question No 126 on the Order Paper for 10 January 2022.