Public health specialists have criticised condominium managements for requiring its tenants to undergo swab tests, saying that it doesn't help to curb the virus.

Monash University Malaysia public health and health systems researcher Mark Cheong said that even if every tenant submits a negative Covid test result before moving in, he doesn't believe that it will be effective in protecting residents from getting infected.

"This is because the swab test only tells you if the person has the virus at the moment the test was taken...