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Today (March 15) afternoon, the State Council Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism held a press conference. At the meeting, Li Jinming, deputy director of the National Health Commission’s Clinical Laboratory Center, introduced that there are three main groups of people for antigen testing.
One category is those who go to primary medical institutions for medical treatment, such as those with clinical symptoms and fever, and those whose symptoms are confirmed to be within 5 days. If the nucleic acid test is negative, you can stay at home and test the antigen for 5 consecutive days. Why test for 5 days in a row? If it is a real new crown infected person, there will be one day in these 5 days that the virus content is relatively high, if it continues to be negative, no intervention is required, and there is no problem.
The second category of personnel, those who are quarantined and observed, include those who are quarantined and observed at home, and those who have entered overseas under quarantine and observation, as well as those who are in close contact, sub-close contact, and closed communities when there is a sporadic outbreak. of people who stay at home. When testing the antigen, test it for 5 consecutive days, once a day. If it is positive, it may be tested. If it is negative, no intervention is required until the last nucleic acid test when the isolation is released.
The third group is residents who wish to do their own testing. If the test is positive, do a nucleic acid test as soon as possible, and if it is negative, you can test the antigen again at home when necessary. If you have obvious clinical symptoms, you should go to the fever clinic, especially those with fever, loss of taste and smell must be At the fever clinic, loss of taste and smell is a very specific symptom of new coronary infection.
(CCTV reporter Liu Jie Liu Tingyu)