The National Health and Health Commission specifically stated 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”.
In other words, promoting the monitoring mode of “antigen screening and nucleic acid diagnosis”.
According to the plan, primary medical and health institutions with nucleic acid detection capabilities should prefer nucleic acid detection; those without nucleic acid detection capabilities may conduct antigen testing.
Isolated observers and community residents should carefully read the instructions and standardize operations for antigen testing. Both positive and negative antigen results in the suspected population should undergo further nucleic acid testing. A positive antigen result is not the basis for a diagnosis of 2019-nCoV infection.
What should I do if the antigen self-test is positive?
According to the plan, people with positive antigen self-test, regardless of whether they have respiratory symptoms, fever, etc., should immediately report to the community (village) where they live, and the community (village) should contact the emergency center according to the new crown epidemic. Guidelines for the transfer of personnel related to the pneumonia epidemic, transferring residents to medical institutions with fever clinics for nucleic acid testing.
At the same time, the 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.
People who have negative antigen self-tests but have symptoms, according to the plan, are advised to go to a medical institution with a fever clinic for nucleic acid testing as soon as possible; Antigen self-tests were performed once a day for 5 consecutive days.
(cqh source: Xinhuanet)