In order to speed up the efficiency, China will adopt the “mixed test” approach to nucleic acid testing. (Diagram of collection and testing) Photo: taken from Weibo
Recently, there is a serious trend of local epidemic in Anhui, China. According to the report, it turns out that the “mixed test” method was used to speed up the efficiency and reduce the cost.
Xiao Meng, assistant researcher and director of the Department of Laboratory Medicine at Peking Union Medical College Hospital, explained that the so-called “mixed test” is a separate sampling of each of the five or 10 people to be tested, the samples of these people will be mixed together as a sample to be tested together, once a positive test tube is found, these people will be immediately recalled for separate testing, Xiao Meng said this way Xiao Meng said this way can be found in the shortest possible time positive patients.
According to Chinese media reports, from yesterday, Anhui Liuan City launched the second round of full nucleic acid testing, divided into three categories, the community residents and medical staff, patients, accompanying family members of confirmed patients to take a single test; medical institutions, such as staff to take 5 people mixed test; the general public to take 10 people mixed test.
Although the mixed test can improve efficiency, but there is also a lot of controversy, there are Chinese netizens in the microblogging article pointed out that their own mixed test in the school, the collection of doctors just keep measuring, are not disinfected, questioning “should not test a person disinfection once?”
The second round of nucleic acid testing was launched in Liuan City, Anhui Province. (The diagram of the test)
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