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Cover reporter Shao Meng
On March 11, the cover reporter learned from the National Health Commission that the State Council is responding to the new coronavirus The Comprehensive Team of the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism for Virus Pneumonia Outbreak issued the “New Coronavirus Antigen Detection Application Plan (Trial)” (referred to as the “Plan”), and decided to promote the monitoring mode of “antigen screening and nucleic acid diagnosis”, adding nucleic acid detection based on Antigen testing as a supplement.
The “Plan” clarifies that the applicable population of antigen testing includes those who go to primary medical and health institutions for treatment, have respiratory symptoms, fever and other symptoms and have symptoms within 5 days; isolation and observation personnel, including home isolation observation, Personnel in close and sub-close contact, entry quarantine observation, closed control area and control area; community residents who need antigen self-testing.
The “Plan” pointed out that community residents who have self-test needs can purchase antigen test reagents for self-test through retail pharmacies, online sales platforms and other channels.
If the antigen test is positive, regardless of whether they have respiratory symptoms, fever and other symptoms, residents should immediately report to the community (village) where they live. Transfer residents to medical institutions with fever clinics for nucleic acid testing. Sampling swabs, sampling tubes, test cards, etc. used by positive persons are put into sealed bags and transported to medical institutions for disposal as medical waste.
Asymptomatic residents who have a negative antigen test can be closely observed, and then undergo an antigen test or nucleic acid test when necessary; symptomatic residents are advised to go to a medical institution with a fever clinic as soon as possible for a nucleic acid test; If it is inconvenient to see a doctor, you should self-isolate at home, avoid going out, and perform an antigen self-test every day for 5 consecutive days.
It is worth noting that the “Program” makes it clear that nucleic acid testing is still the basis for the diagnosis of new coronavirus infection, and antigen testing can be used as a supplementary method to screen specific groups of people, which is conducive to improving the ability of “early detection” .
The “Plan” emphasizes that primary medical and health institutions with nucleic acid detection capabilities should prefer nucleic acid testing; those who do not have nucleic acid detection capabilities can conduct antigen testing, and do a good job in training medical staff and communicating with patients guide. Isolation observers and community residents should carefully read the instructions and standardize their operations for antigen testing. Once the antigen test is positive, they should immediately report to the relevant departments; when necessary, nucleic acid testing should be carried out to confirm.
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