SHAH ALAM, April 29 -- The COVID-19 community screening exercise conducted by the Selangor government in six red zones detected eight out of 10 positive cases were asymptomatic.

Selangor Menteri Besar, Datuk Seri Amirudin Shari said the targeted community screening was carried out from April 11 to 23 with 5,433 samples tested in the effort to break the chain of COVID-19 infection in the state.

He said the screening conducted via drive-through as well as house-to-house including old folks homes used the real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) method approved by the Ministry of Health (MOH) with the cooperation of Selangor State Development Corporation, SELCARE Clinic, District Health Offices, local authorities and police.