China News Service, May 23. The Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council held a press conference on the 23rd. Guo Yanhong, the Supervision Commissioner of the Medical Administration and Hospital Administration Bureau of the National Health and Health Commission, said at the meeting that normalized nucleic acid testing should be based on local epidemic prevention and control. It is absolutely not one size fits all.
A reporter asked at the meeting: Shanghai, Hangzhou, Shenzhen and other cities are currently actively carrying out the work of walking nucleic acid sampling circles. For example, Shanghai has laid out 9,900 convenient sampling points and mobile sampling points.
The daily open sampling points in Hangzhou are kept at more than 10,000.
Is it too expensive to set up so many monitoring points to establish such a 15-minute walk for nucleic acid sampling circle?
Is such a large-scale and high-investment construction related to nucleic acid testing necessary?
In addition, is it limited to provincial capitals and cities with a population of more than 10 million, is it also necessary for second- and third-tier cities and county towns?
In this regard, Guo Yanhong said that the characteristics of the Omicron variant made it difficult for some early infected people to be found, but he was already highly infectious.
The clustered outbreaks of Omicron that occurred in many places in the early stage had actually spread in the community for a period of time when they were discovered, which brought great challenges to the entire prevention and control work.
Therefore, carrying out normalized nucleic acid testing in areas with a high risk of imported epidemics is conducive to improving the sensitivity of epidemic monitoring and early warning, weaving the epidemic monitoring network closely, detecting potential risks earlier, and implementing the "four early" requirements. At the same time, it is also conducive to realizing the requirement of doing all the tests that should be tested and willing to do all the tests, so as to provide more convenient and fast nucleic acid testing services for the common people.
Guo Yanhong revealed that at present, many cities and regions in China have successively explored and implemented normalized nucleic acid testing.
For example, Hangzhou and Shanghai mentioned just now have already made the layout of sampling circles.
Many cities like Shenzhen, Dalian, Hefei, Jiangxi, and Hubei have also carried out a series of work. These cities have rationally arranged nucleic acid sampling points according to the actual local conditions. The important purpose is to allow citizens to carry out nucleic acid testing nearby.
At the same time, it does not crowd out the nucleic acid testing services of medical institutions.
In general, these practical work and exploration are stable and have achieved good results.
In particular, in some places, the joint procurement of nucleic acid detection reagents and other consumables has further lowered the cost of testing, lowered the price of testing, and promoted the orderly development of normalized testing.
It should be said that based on "prevention" in epidemic prevention and control, the cost is the lowest. Only based on "prevention", reducing the occurrence of cases and reducing the scope of infection, can the life and health of the people be maintained, and economic and social development can be achieved in a run in a stable environment.
Guo Yanhong also said, "In addition, we have learned that relevant departments of the State Council are also stepping up research to further guide localities to reduce the cost and price of nucleic acid testing. Normalized nucleic acid testing should be determined according to the needs of local epidemic prevention and control, and absolutely cannot be one size fits all. Therefore, we do not require all cities to establish a 15-minute nucleic acid sampling circle, mainly concentrated in provincial capital cities with high import risk and cities with a population of 10 million. In terms of frequency, not all people are required to be 48 The test is conducted once an hour, and the specific test frequency must be determined locally based on the occurrence and development of the epidemic and the needs of prevention and control. Therefore, scientific and accurate epidemic prevention and control work is also the same in nucleic acid detection work. "