Mid -disease control: As long as the noodles swab collection operation specifications cause the risk of missed inspection extremely low

Cover news reporter Shao Meng

On August 10, the State Council's joint prevention and control mechanism held a press conference to introduce the recent epidemic prevention and control work.

The ninth edition of the prevention and control scheme will optimize the requirements of the "double inspection" of the "double inspection" of the entry -separated nucleic acid test to the "single -mining and single test" of the oral pharyngeal swab and no longer collect the nasopharynxes. Risk of missed inspection? Dong Xiaoping, chief expert of the China Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, responded that the adjustment was made based on a large amount of scientific data generated by the specific practice of the new crown epidemic in more than two years.

Dong Xiaoping, chief expert of the China Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Picture source: China Net

On August 10th, the press conference of the joint prevention and control mechanism of the State Council. Cover reporter Shao Meng Photography

Dong Xiaoping said that although some studies have shown that the detection rate of the virus of the nasopharynx swab is slightly higher than that of the oral pharmaceutical swab, in the specific large number of sample practice, no these two detection methods have been found to be the virus when the immigration is separated from the isolation of the virus. There are clear statistical differences in nucleic acid detection. In addition, when the nasopharynx swab is collected, the technical requirements of the collector are relatively high and have a certain difficulty. At the same time, if the detected person has nasal disease or trauma, it is not suitable for nasopharynx wiper detection.

"According to the results of specific practice, we think that as long as the ordered swab is standardized, the risk of missed inspection is extremely low." Dong Xiaoping said.

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