(Shanghai War Epidemic Record) Frontline | Tribute to the "behind the scenes" war epidemic fighters in the "Huoyan" laboratory

　　China News Service, Shanghai, April 11th: Tribute to the "behind the scenes" battlers in the "Huoyan" laboratory

　　Author Li Qiuying Chen Congyao Zheng Yingying

　　In Shanghai on the 11th, the temperature climbed a few degrees again. At a temperature of more than 30 degrees Celsius, it was also a little hot in the Pudong "Huoyan" laboratory located on Banxia Road, Shanghai International Medical Park.

The "Fire Eye" laboratory consists of seven negative pressure dura chambers.

Looking at the scene, there are many newly moved air conditioners on the floor between the white air-film "tents".

　　"Sleepless"

　　Huang Bin, the temporary party secretary and team leader of the Guangdong Provincial Medical Team Aid to Shanghai, is mobilizing the team members, the "Dabai" from Guangdong: "I hope you will continue to work hard tonight and complete this task successfully. Do you have confidence? "Yes!" As the voice fell, the team members began to enter the cabin one after another to work.

　　Since arriving in the early morning of April 3, the Guangdong "big whites" led by Huang Bin have been working continuously for more than a week.

"Shanghai, which has been affected by the epidemic, is quiet. We hope to overcome the epidemic as soon as possible and make it return to its former prosperity," she said.

　　In the past few days, Shanghai has conducted multiple rounds of nucleic acid screening. Huang Bin led the team to work at various testing sites, and could only rest for about two or three hours a day, but she said, "Actually, in order to fight the epidemic, I know many people It is sleepless, I often call them at 3 or 4 in the middle of the night (personnel from the Shanghai epidemic prevention and control departments), and the people who connect with them are all sleepless and are dealing with these epidemic-related work.”

　　"Find a way"

　　The daily detection throughput designed by the "Huoyan" laboratory is 100,000 single tubes, but just the day before, this number was broken: from 100,000 single tubes to 132,000 single tubes, in theory, its detection capacity has improved by more than 100,000. 30%.

Photo by Chen Congyao of the working scene in the air capsule

　　Chen Jiangtao, a member of the temporary party committee of the Guangdong Provincial Medical Team for Shanghai Aid, introduced that in the past two days, the team worked with BGI staff in the laboratory to make adjustments to the laboratory's procedures and the number of staff on posts.

Originally, the daily testing throughput of the laboratory was 100,000 single tubes, which is nearly 4,200 tubes per hour; after process optimization, the team achieved a speed of 5,500 tubes per hour from 23:00 to 24:00 the night before (the evening of the 10th). In other words, its theoretical daily detection throughput has been increased to 132,000 single tubes.

　　"This is a result of our Guangdong team's exchange, joint research and optimization with the testing colleagues in Shanghai." Chen Jiangtao said.

　　"Hurry Up"

　　The laboratory, which covers an area of ​​about 2,400 square meters, was built in just a dozen hours.

At the scene, walking into the laboratory, there are 7 negative pressure dura chambers with white appearance.

　　Xu Zhenpeng, the on-site commander of the Pudong "Huoyan" laboratory of BGI Group, introduced to the reporter, "We have a "Fire Eye" laboratory called the air film version, there are two kinds of air film versions, one is soft film, ours is hard film membrane."

　　"You can see that there is a 'skeleton'," he said, patting the support structure of the air capsule.

　　On the whole, the laboratory is divided into several compartments such as reagent preparation, sample packaging, and sample extraction.

At night, in each cabin, there are staff wearing protective clothing busy.

　　Xu Zhenpeng informed that his team arrived in Shanghai on April 4 and immediately started to build the air capsule and prepare the equipment inside.

On April 5, the laboratory began to receive inspection and approval from relevant departments, and then immediately received nucleic acid test samples.

"I received more than 80,000 tubes yesterday, and there are still some tasks. We need to get the results in a shorter time." He said.

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