◎Reporter Wang Chun
A reporter from Science and Technology Daily learned from the National Health Commission on April 17 that as of now, my country's nucleic acid detection capacity has reached 51.65 million tubes/day.
Since the outbreak of the epidemic, about 11.5 billion tests have been completed, providing a strong guarantee for the timely detection of infected persons and the realization of "dynamic clearing".
It is reported that since the outbreak of the epidemic, the Party Central Committee and the State Council have made deployments on strengthening the construction of nucleic acid testing capabilities. Party committees, governments, relevant departments and medical and health institutions across the country have attached great importance to this work and taken effective measures. Great progress has been made. At present, only my country can quickly detect infected people through large-scale population nucleic acid screening. my country's nucleic acid detection capacity and accessibility are much higher than those of European and American countries. epidemic.
Nucleic acid testing is the gold standard for judging new coronavirus infection.
As of now, 13,100 medical and health institutions across the country have testing capabilities; the testing capacity has reached 51.65 million tubes/day; nearly 150,000 technicians are engaged in nucleic acid testing of the new coronavirus; a total of 37 nucleic acid testing reagents have been approved for listing; Results within hours; innovatively developed 5-in-1, 10-in-1, and 20-in-1 mixed detection technology, and the detection strategy is constantly being optimized; Xi'an, Zhengzhou, Tianjin and other places can complete nucleic acid detection of about 12 million people in one day .
my country attaches great importance to the quality control of the whole process of nucleic acid testing. It has successively issued a series of important documents to refine and standardize nucleic acid testing, and adopted a series of measures to ensure accurate, reliable and timely reporting of testing results.
For example, various nucleic acid testing institutions such as medical institutions, CDCs, and third-party laboratories are included in the quality control and quality evaluation system for unified management; nucleic acid testing organization managers, sampling personnel, packaging and transportation personnel, testing personnel, reporting personnel, All personnel including quality control personnel and infection control personnel carry out targeted training; for the collection, delivery, inspection and reporting processes, a series of more detailed and specific requirements are put forward to further improve the quality and efficiency of nucleic acid testing .
In Shanghai, a super-large city with a population of 25 million, in order to overcome the epidemic as soon as possible, nearly 30,000 nucleic acid testing forces across the country are currently rushing to Shanghai to accelerate the nucleic acid testing work.
In the makeshift hospital of the New International Expo Center, three nucleic acid testing vehicles were quickly built into a mobile base. Within 18 hours, nucleic acid testing of nearly 15,000 samples was completed.
In the mobile nucleic acid testing laboratory located in Nanhui Sports Center, Pudong New Area, the nucleic acid testing team of Sichuan Province Aid to Shanghai carefully treats each tube of specimens, from specimen reception, information verification, specimen numbering to uploading results, and strives to ensure that every step is guaranteed. Quality beats time.
Guangdong Province supports the Shanghai nucleic acid testing team to implement the dual-leader responsibility system and quality supervision system, and do a good job in the whole-process quality control of nucleic acid testing to ensure that nucleic acid testing "does not miss a single positive".
In order to speed up the implementation of the "four early" requirements and achieve "fast production", the importance of nucleic acid testing is self-evident.
Doing a good job of "doing all the inspections that should be inspected and willing to do all the inspections" requires that all regions, departments and all parties always attach great importance to the construction of nucleic acid testing capabilities, focus on "increment" and "quality" on the one hand, and the general public. Understand and cooperate, consider your own health and the health of others, actively cooperate with testing related work, and jointly defend the line of defense against the epidemic.