China News Service, May 15 Zeng Yixin, deputy director of the National Health Commission, said on the 15th that Wuhan City began to conduct nucleic acid testing of residents in the city, the main purpose is to further clarify the scope of the epidemic, carry out active search, strengthen the detection and investigation efforts. Expanding the scope of nucleic acid detection is not only conducive to precise prevention and control, protecting the health of the masses, but also contributing to the rational flow of personnel and promoting the comprehensive restoration of social economy and living order.
Data map: The staff of the medical laboratory is performing nucleic acid testing on the samples sent. Photo by Yin Liqin
The State Council Information Office held a press conference on the 15th to introduce the normal prevention and control of the new coronary pneumonia epidemic. Zeng Yixin responded to the purpose of Wuhan City's ongoing national nucleic acid testing.
Zeng Yixin said that Wuhan City began to conduct nucleic acid testing on the residents of the city, the main purpose is to further clarify the scope of the epidemic, carry out active search, strengthen the detection and investigation efforts, and expand the scope of testing is also an important measure to implement the "four early measures" and also to coordinate Promote the resumption of work and production, and the important guarantee of normalization prevention and control. On the basis of comprehensive scientific assessment of epidemic risks and detection capabilities, expanding the scope of nucleic acid detection is not only conducive to precise prevention and control, protecting the health of the masses, but also contributing to the rational flow of personnel and promoting the comprehensive restoration of social economy and living order .
Zeng Yixin believes that not only Wuhan, but various places can adjust and optimize the normalized prevention and control measures according to local conditions. According to the needs of epidemic prevention and control, the situation in each place may be different. You can determine and combine your own local needs and detection capabilities. Dynamically adjust the detection strategy and population range. For example, Wuhan ’s nucleic acid detection of the entire population in this area is a very difficult task and work. From the perspective of social mobilization and organization, it is necessary to ensure that there is no close relationship between this part of the population detected first and the population detected later. Contact, so that the detection effect is more reflected. From a technical point of view, if you want to adopt a sample-integrated detection method, you must also try not to reduce the sensitivity of the detection. This is a very difficult task and you must do it well.
In addition, the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council recently issued the “Guiding Opinions on Doing a Good Job in the Normalization of New Coronary Pneumonia Epidemic Prevention and Control”, which clearly stipulates that all key populations should be inspected thoroughly and other groups should be inspected. After thorough inspection, Zeng Yixin explained how to refine this work in the next step, saying that he will focus on the following measures:
One is to actively expand the scope of detection and make every effort to reduce the hidden dangers of transmission. Based on the needs of epidemic prevention and control work and testing capabilities, the localities determined and dynamically adjusted the testing strategy and the range of the population, and implemented the key population "due inspection" and other groups "willing to inspect the inspection".
The second is to speed up the improvement of testing capabilities and meet the testing needs. It is necessary to strengthen the laboratory construction of disease control institutions, medical institutions, customs, etc., give full play to the enthusiasm of social testing institutions, strengthen the research, approval and market transformation of testing equipment, testing methods and testing reagents, and accelerate the increase in the production capacity of equipment, reagents and consumables. There are many reagents that have been approved for marketing, but the reagents are still being optimized, continuously developed, and continuously improved. There is still a lot of work to be done in this regard.
The third is to improve the working mechanism and improve the detection efficiency. Implement the responsibilities of relevant departments, guide and organize the testing of relevant personnel in an orderly manner. It is necessary to strengthen community mobilization, guide the masses to assist and cooperate in testing, and accept prevention and control measures such as sample collection, testing, isolation, and treatment according to law. This work requires the broad masses of the people to support and cooperate in order to do this job well.
The fourth is to strengthen organizational management and increase security. Governments at all levels should consider strengthening testing as an important part of normalized prevention and control work, strengthen policy support, increase funding guarantees, and rapidly improve nucleic acid testing capabilities, and actively promote the implementation of this work, in order to consolidate the current epidemic prevention and control results, effectively Laying the foundation to prevent the rebound of epidemic situation.