[Explanation] In order to prevent and control the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government will officially launch a universal community testing program on September 1. On the morning of August 30th, when the reporter visited the "Fire Eye Laboratory" in the Hong Kong Sun Yat-sen Memorial Park Gymnasium, they saw that everything was ready and secondary protection had been activated: staff entering and exiting wore a full set of plastic protective clothing and shoe covers, two sets The words "material" and "sample" are attached to the elevators to meet the upcoming stricter operating standards.
[Concurrent] Zhang Dong, Deputy General Manager of Hong Kong Huasheng Diagnostic Center
We then move people, samples, and objects separately. All the personnel came up the stairs, the samples came up by the elevator, and the goods were also transported to the Huoyan (laboratory) site by another separate elevator.
[Commentary] Zhang Dong, deputy general manager of Huasheng Diagnostic Center Co., Ltd., revealed to reporters that the National Health Commission will send a total of about 600 mainland nucleic acid testing support teams to Hong Kong. At present, more than 200 support team members have arrived, and there are more than 200 technicians in the Huasheng Diagnostic Center. The two parties will participate in the popularization of Hong Kong community testing.
[Concurrent] Zhang Dong, Deputy General Manager of Hong Kong Huasheng Diagnostic Center
In the early stage, Huasheng Company was responsible for the construction and design of the laboratory. Then we also provided assistance within our capacity for the national support team to work in Hong Kong before legally working in Hong Kong.
[Explanation] Zhang Dong said that at the request of the SAR government, the test will adopt a "three-mixed-one" approach, and it is conservatively estimated that the daily test volume will exceed 300,000. Zhang Dong corrected the privacy issues of sample DNA that may be involved in the detection of concern in the market.
[Concurrent] Zhang Dong, Deputy General Manager of Hong Kong Huasheng Diagnostic Center
Hong Kong citizens do not have to worry about this statement. The new coronavirus test extracts RNA, not DNA. And all negative samples after the test will be destroyed in the venue, and the positive samples will be sent to the relevant government designated departments for confirmation and testing. Behind me, I saw a row of blue autoclaves. After the samples were tested, we would sterilize them at 121 degrees for 30 minutes if they were negative.
[Explanation] Huasheng Diagnostic Center also participated in the testing work of a specific working group organized by the SAR government earlier. For this large-scale testing in Hong Kong, Zhang Dong said that everyone is confident to accept greater challenges.
[Concurrent] Zhang Dong, Deputy General Manager of Hong Kong Huasheng Diagnostic Center
Everyone is still quite nervous, because we have never performed such a large-throughput test in Hong Kong in the past. We look forward to the Hong Kong (SAR) government sending us enough samples to challenge the limit of our testing throughput. I also hope that this can contribute to Hong Kong's popularization (testing) plan and contribute to the health of Hong Kong citizens.
Reporter Li Yue and Zhu Aili from Hong Kong
Editor in charge: 【Luo Pan】