(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) China's National Health Commission: Avoid blindly expanding the scope of nucleic acid testing for all employees
China News Service, Beijing, June 9 (Reporter Guo Chaokai) He Qinghua, a first-level inspector of the CDC of China's National Health Commission, said in Beijing on the 9th that after the outbreak of a clustered epidemic, it is necessary to scientifically formulate nucleic acid detection strategies according to the needs of epidemic prevention and control. Avoid blindly expanding the scope of nucleic acid testing for all employees, and conduct nucleic acid testing on the people under inspection in descending order of risk level.
On the same day, the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council of China held a press conference.
He Qinghua said that after the outbreak, the personnel, scope and frequency of nucleic acid testing must be arranged according to the needs of epidemic prevention and control.
Specifically, the first full-staff nucleic acid test will be completed within 24 hours in the sealed-off area, and the first full-staff nucleic acid test will be completed within 48 hours in the control area.
Personnel in medium- and high-risk areas, closed and controlled areas, and control areas are not allowed to go out. If you really need to travel in low-risk areas and prevention areas where the epidemic occurs, you need to hold a 48-hour negative nucleic acid test certificate.
If there is no epidemic and there is no risk of importation, nucleic acid inspection should not become the norm.
At the press conference, Li Ang, deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Health Commission, introduced the relevant experience in Beijing.
He said that Beijing has implemented regional and hierarchical normalized epidemic prevention and control measures, and adjusted the negative nucleic acid certificate for entering public places from 48 hours to 72 hours. This is mainly due to two considerations: on the one hand, considering the new crown virus Omikron The average incubation period of mutant strains is about 3 days, and nucleic acid testing can detect potential infected persons within 72 hours. normal production and life order.
A few days ago, China proposed that large cities should build nucleic acid sampling circles within a 15-minute walk.
In response to some doubts about the necessity of this measure, Guo Yanhong, Inspector of the Medical Administration and Hospital Administration Bureau of the National Health Commission of China, responded that in the normalization of epidemic prevention and control, port cities, provincial capital cities and cities with a population of 10 million are at risk of importing epidemics. It is relatively high. The establishment of a nucleic acid sampling circle of 15 minutes on foot is conducive to providing more convenient nucleic acid testing services for those who should be tested and those who are willing to be tested; it is conducive to improving the sensitivity of epidemic monitoring and early warning, and building a strong epidemic early warning and discovery system; It is also conducive to earlier detection of potential risks, faster implementation of prevention and control measures, and avoidance of large-scale and explosive clusters of epidemics.
"It should be emphasized that the 15-minute nucleic acid sampling circle is not required to be established in all cities. It is mainly concentrated in the high risk of epidemic importation, especially in large cities with large populations." She said, whether to build a 15-minute nucleic acid sampling circle and The frequency of testing should be determined according to the development of the local epidemic situation and the need for prevention and control work in light of the circumstances and circumstances, rather than a "one size fits all" approach.
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