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There are voices from the domestic medical community that speed is as important as accuracy when performing corona diagnostic tests.



It may be more efficient to do frequent quick tests than once or twice, but what will happen to our quarantine policy, medical reporter Cho Dong-chan will explain this.



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symposium hosted by the National Medical Center, many argued that the corona19 test as fast as accuracy is necessary in situations where the path of infection is unknown or there are many asymptomatic infections.



In Korea, instead of rapid antigen testing, only close contact and symptomatic PCR tests are accepted.



[Jeon Jae-Hyun/National Medical Center Infectious Internal Medicine Specialist: Not only me, but also a large number of infectious internal medicine specialists (thinking) that it would be good to regularly perform rapid antigen tests regardless of symptoms.]



Especially in nursing facilities where high-risk groups are admitted. Concerns have been raised about having only one PCR preemptive test.



[Eunsil Go/Corona 19 Metropolitan Situation Room (Emergency Medicine Specialist): (At a nursing facility) PCR test, once test, full test is good.

However, how long the validity period is and how long can it be said that it is safe (I am curious.)]



However, it was pointed out that the accuracy is still low and it is too early to introduce it.



The Central Clinical Committee for New Infectious Diseases analyzed that due to the nature of nursing homes where caregivers and medical professionals frequently come and go, it is more efficient to perform rapid tests frequently than to do accurate tests, which are cumbersome procedures.



He emphasized the introduction of rapid antigen testing, saying that speed is as important as accuracy.



[Myung-don Oh/Chairman of the Central Clinical Committee for New Infectious Diseases: I think we need to think specifically about which one will be such a strategy to lower death.] Even in a



recent Harvard University study in the United States, repeating rapid tests can significantly reduce population infections. Appeared to be.



The quarantine authorities said they are preparing a way to complement and use high-accuracy and rapid tests.



(Video editing: Kim Ho-jin, VJ: Oh Se-gwan)