(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) Visiting Shijiazhuang "Huoyan" Laboratory: "Arabic Soldiers" assist in nucleic acid testing for all employees
China News Service, Shijiazhuang, January 11th, title: Visiting Shijiazhuang "Huoyan" Laboratory: "Arabic Soldiers" assist in nucleic acid testing for all employees
Author Li Xiaowei
"The biggest feature of the'Huoyan' laboratory is its very fast construction, and another feature is the large amount of testing." On the evening of January 9th, in the tennis hall of Hebei Gymnasium, Chen Wurong pointed to a row of white air film cabins behind him. .
Chen Wurong is the production support director of the BGI Gene Delivery Center. These 15 air film cabins are the "Fire Eye" laboratory that they built in 20 hours and have the highest daily detection throughput of 100,000 single tubes. They follow the 10 mixed 1 detection method. , The laboratory can detect up to 1 million samples per day.
Data map: On the evening of January 8, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, staff were busy at the construction site of the "Huoyan" laboratory.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Zhai Yujia
In these semi-cylindrical laboratories with a height of 3 to 4 meters and covering an area of more than 70 square meters, "fully equipped" experimenters are doing their best to carry out nucleic acid detection work, and each experimental instrument is also in operation.
On January 6, Shijiazhuang, as the "center" of the current round of the epidemic in Hebei, pressed the "pause button" overnight to carry out nucleic acid testing for all employees, striving to complete the sample submission of tens of millions of permanent residents within 72 hours.
On the 8th, in order to rapidly increase the strength of nucleic acid testing, Shijiazhuang set up a professional nucleic acid testing laboratory-the "Huoyan" laboratory in the Hebei Gymnasium, and put it into use that night, becoming a "wonder" in the nucleic acid testing team.
The "Fire Eye" laboratory in Shijiazhuang this time is composed of a 12-cabin "Fire Eye" laboratory (air film version) and a 3-cabin quick-loading negative pressure dura mater "Fire Eye". The mobile vehicle-mounted "Fire Eye" laboratory and Shijiazhuang Hua Large medical testing laboratories are also in place.
It is also equipped with hundreds of various testing equipment, forming a large-scale and standardized nucleic acid testing platform, which can realize integrated pathogen detection.
Zhao Lijian, deputy commander of Hebei's "Huoyan" laboratory, said that they learned that Shijiazhuang needed a lot of nucleic acid testing on the 6th, and rushed to Shijiazhuang in the early morning of the 7th.
With local support and coordination, construction began at the Hebei Gymnasium at 0:00 on the 8th.
Data map: On the evening of January 8, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, staff were busy at the construction site of the "Huoyan" laboratory.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Zhai Yujia
"Compared with the traditional construction method, the air film "fire eye" laboratory is much faster." Talking about the reason why the laboratory was built within a day, Zhao Lijian said that it only takes 50% to fill the air film chamber with gas. In about minutes, the cabin adopts a modular layout, and the equipment is directly assembled after entering the site, which is very convenient.
The air-film cabin can also be loaded on the plane and transported to the area where it is needed together with the commonly used detection reagents and instruments, becoming a "mobile laboratory", which greatly speeds up the establishment of laboratories and rapidly improves detection capabilities.
The strong detection capability of the "Huoyan" laboratory has attracted a lot of attention.
According to Zhao Lijian, in order to achieve a daily inspection capacity of 100,000 single tubes, they used less than two days to dispatch more than 400 inspection personnel from all over the country, plus more than 500 local personnel.
At the same time, the employees work in two shifts, with instruments and equipment 24 hours a day, fully performing nucleic acid testing.
In addition, the addition of fully automatic testing equipment has doubled the testing capabilities of the "Huoyan" laboratory.
As an example, Zhao Lijian said that the laboratory is equipped with automated nucleic acid extraction equipment, which eliminates the need to manually extract specimens from a single tube into a 96-well plate, which improves work efficiency and reduces the error rate of manual operations and the risk of infection.
It is understood that the "Huoyan" laboratory is an "veteran" who has fought countless anti-epidemic wars. It assisted Beijing Daxing in June 2020, Hong Kong to complete universal community testing in September, and Qingdao citywide testing in October...
At present, the first round of nucleic acid testing for all employees in Shijiazhuang and Xingtai has ended, with more than 13 million people being tested. As of 24:00 on the 9th, a total of 364 cases were screened as positive.
Shijiazhuang is about to start the second round of nucleic acid testing for all employees, and strive to complete it in two days.
In the next step, the "Fire Eye" laboratory may play a greater role.
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