Recently, more and more people are vaccinated, and how to deal with cotton swabs after injection has caused concern.
A few days ago, the Beijing Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention issued guidelines for the prevention of nucleic acid environmental pollution in new crown vaccination sites.
According to the guidelines, after the injection is completed, a special person should be responsible for supervising the recipients to discard the cotton swabs that press the inoculation site in a designated recycling container, and not to take them away from the site.
The guidelines also require that medical waste at vaccination sites should be collected in a centralized manner, and temporary vaccination sites not located in medical institutions should bring all medical waste back to centralized processing.
The vaccine packaging box and vaccine instructions should be kept in the inoculation unit and treated as medical waste.
Now that many people who meet the requirements have begun to receive the new crown vaccine, why can't the cotton swab be taken away?
The environment of the "designated vaccination site" may have tested positive for the new coronavirus. Is there a health risk?
In addition, there are people who are concerned about whether they can touch it with their hands after vaccination.
Will it remain on the clothes?
Let's listen to Wang Guiqiang, director of the Department of Infectious Diseases at Peking University First Hospital.