wait a minute, you have to do a test before entering JB? I thought there is no test involved?
Travellers to Malaysia unhappy being made to fork out costly on-arrival Covid-19 test
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/s...e-to-cough-up-costly-on-arrival-covid-19-test
PETALING JAYA (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Travellers arriving in Malaysia are fuming that they have to pay for an expensive professionally administered antigen rapid test at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) when they had already done a pre-departure polymerase chain reaction test.
They also questioned the need for the on-arrival test when Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines
have stopped it or have announced that they will halt doing so soon.
Malaysian Cindy Foo, 35, who returned from Jakarta, said she had to do the antigen rapid test - known as RTK-Antigen test in Malaysia - at the airport on April 1.
"We had to wait for the test at KLIA. I don't understand why we have to be tested again when we had already taken the pre-departure test," she said on Wednesday (April 6).
A traveller from Singapore, Mr Muhamad Hamid, 39, also questioned the need to do the test again.
"It would be easier for us if they scrap the on-arrival testing just like other countries in the region," he added.
There are several types of on-arrival Covid-19 test options available at KLIA and low-cost terminal KLIA2, with the professional RTK-Antigen (nasal) test costing RM100 (S$32) for Malaysians and RM160 for foreigners.
It normally costs around RM60 to RM70 if the tests are conducted at clinics.
It takes between 15 minutes and 30 minutes for the test results to be out.