(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) Wuhan Nucleic Acid Test Screened 9 Positive Cases, Experts Say No Large-scale Spread
China News Service, Wuhan, August 8 (Reporter Zhang Qin) The reporter learned from the Wuhan New Crown Epidemic Prevention and Control Work Press Conference held on the afternoon of the 8th that up to now, the city has completed a total of 11.285,800 nucleic acid tests, basically achieving complete cover. In addition to the cases found among the quarantined and controlled personnel, 9 positive cases were screened from the closed and controlled districts through the nucleic acid test of all employees, and they were all transferred to designated hospitals for isolation and treatment.
“Wuhan completed the sampling and testing of more than 11 million people in only about 3 days this time. This decision is decisive, rapid, and based on scientific evidence.” Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tongji Hospital of Huazhong University of Science and Technology Chen Xiaoping, the director of surgery, said that from the results of the nucleic acid test of all employees, the epidemic in Wuhan did not form a large-scale spillover.
On August 2, Wuhan Economic Development Zone reported that a cluster of infections occurred at the construction site of the Wuhan Zhuankou Project of China Construction Third Bureau. After investigation, Tang, the first confirmed patient in this round of the epidemic in Wuhan, was a migrant worker at the construction site. When he was waiting at the Jingzhou high-speed railway station on July 27, there was an intersection with the activity trajectory of a tourist group in Huaian, Jiangsu. As of 24:00 on the 7th, a total of 27 confirmed cases have been reported in Wuhan, all of which are related to the above-mentioned construction sites and tourist groups.
On August 3, Wuhan announced the launch of nucleic acid testing for all employees in the city. According to Li Tao, deputy secretary-general of the Wuhan Municipal Government, the city has invested more than 28,000 medical staff in the nucleic acid testing for all employees, organized more than 180 medical institutions in the city to participate in sampling, and 104 testing institutions have undertaken the testing.
According to Zhang Dingyu, deputy director of the Hubei Provincial Health Commission and Chief Public Health Officer, in order to ensure the quality of nucleic acid testing, on the one hand, professional medical staff at sampling points strictly follow the standardized procedures for sample collection, transfer, storage, and inspection. On the other hand, key areas were first sealed and then tested, and key populations were re-examined daily, and other areas were rapidly advancing. In the implementation process, single inspection and mixed inspection are combined, single inspection is implemented in medium-risk areas, and 10:1 mixed inspection is used in low-risk areas. A group of clinical inspection experts are stationed to guide the inspection institutions to monitor and evaluate the quality of the whole process to ensure the accuracy of the inspection.
“Full-staff nucleic acid testing is an important means to prevent the spread of the epidemic.” Chen Xiaoping believes that the nucleic acid testing in Wuhan not only found a few potential sources of infection, but also facilitated the next step of scientific decision-making, precise prevention and control, and helped in Resolve the epidemic control to the smallest scope in the shortest time. It is of great significance to safeguard people’s life safety and physical health, and to restore normal economic and social order at an early date. (Finish)
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