Photo courtesy of Haining Media Center for the press conference on the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia in Jiaxing City
(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) A total of 52 cases of positive infections have been reported in Jiaxing, Zhejiang, and 2 have been cured and discharged.
China News, Jiaxing, March 21 (Shi Zinan and Zhang Yudi) On the 21st, a reporter from Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province The city’s new crown pneumonia epidemic prevention and control work press conference learned that from 8:00 on the 20th to 8:00 on the 21st, the city reported 4 new positive infections, including 1 in Pinghu City and 3 in Haining City. Since March 13, a total of 52 cases of positive infection have been reported in the city, including 39 cases in Pinghu City, 12 cases in Haining City, and 1 case in Nanhu District. Up to now, 2 people have been cured and discharged, and the remaining 50 people are being treated in designated medical institutions.
According to Jiang Yuan, deputy director of Jiaxing Municipal Health and Health Commission, on the 20th, Jiaxing City has checked 2,286 close and sub-close contacts; completed 1.2398 million nucleic acid tests, including 826,000 nucleic acid tests in the “three districts” The results were all negative, and the 4 newly reported positive infections were all screened at the centralized isolation point.
It pointed out that on the 20th, Xucun Town and Zhouwangmiao Town in Haining City carried out full-coverage antigen and nucleic acid “dual detection” work. A total of 350,000 new crown antigen detection reagents have been distributed, and 2 cases have been received so far. Suspected positive samples for the new crown antigen test will be excluded after the nucleic acid test review.
At the press conference, Sun Pinjing, director of the Haining Center for Disease Control and Prevention, introduced the relevant content of the new crown antigen test.
“As a supplementary detection method for the nucleic acid detection of the new coronavirus, the new crown antigen test has the characteristics of fast, simple, economical, and self-testing, and can screen out the highly contagious infected persons in time.” Sun Pinjing said .
It said that the significance of the new crown antigen test is that it provides a rapid screening method for grassroots hospitals that do not have the conditions to carry out nucleic acid testing, and can quickly screen suspected infected objects, so that control measures can be taken more quickly. , to prevent the spread of the epidemic.
It is understood that the COVID-19 antigen test is mainly suitable for the following three groups of people: first, those who go to primary medical and health institutions and have symptoms such as respiratory tract and fever and have symptoms within 5 days; Personnel, including those in home isolation observation, close contact and sub-close contact, entry isolation observation, closed control area and control area; the third is community residents who need antigen self-testing.
Sun Pinjing said that at present, the new crown antigen test is only used as a supplementary method for the new crown pneumonia test, and the nucleic acid test is still the basis for the diagnosis of new crown pneumonia infection. A negative new crown antigen test cannot replace a negative nucleic acid certificate. (End)
Source: China News Network