Why can’t people with COVID-19 be quarantined at home?
Recently, some experts said that asymptomatic patients with COVID-19 do not need hospitalization, but they need to be quarantined. In fact, the reason is very simple, because home isolation can easily lead to the widespread spread of the virus, which is not conducive to epidemic prevention and control. Liang Wannian, an expert on the COVID-19 epidemic from the Chinese …
Medico Can Produce Nasal Swabs for COVID-19 Self-test Antigen Kits
Recently, the State Food and Drug Administration of China approved the registration application of 5 COVID-19 antigen test products, and 10 new crown antigen self-test products have been officially launched since then. The disposable nasopharyngeal sampling swabs produced by Shenzhen Medico Technology Co., Ltd. can be used for COVID-19 antigen test. The company has put into production and has a …
China’s Shenzhen Starting to Resume Normal Work, Production
A medical worker takes a swab sample from a child for nucleic acid test at a testing site in Futian district of Shenzhen, South China’s Guangdong province, Jan 9, 2022. [Photo/Xinhua] SHENZHEN — Government offices, enterprises, and businesses in the southern Chinese metropolis of Shenzhen to resume normal work and production from Monday as the latest COVID-19 resurgence subsides, local …
China’s Jilin Hands Out COVID-19 Self-Test Antigen Kits
CHANGCHUN — The northeastern Chinese cities of Changchun and Jilin, hardest hit by the fresh outbreak of COVID-19, have distributed millions of COVID-19 self-test antigen kits to citizens, including students, to accelerate massive epidemiological screening. Starting from 4 am Wednesday, Changchun, the capital of Jilin province, has given out more than 3.34 million self-test kits to part of its urban …
What causes a false negative in the nucleic acid test for COVID-19?
What is a COVID-19 false negative? It means that the result of a certain test should actually be positive, but the result is negative due to reasons such as operation, equipment, personal physical characteristics, etc. Positive results were obtained after repeated negative tests, throat swab samples were negative for multiple tests but finally positive results were detected in respiratory lavage …
Medical expert says vaccine strategy key to fight against COVID-19 pandemic
Promoting an efficient vaccine strategy will be the top priority in the next phase of the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, renowned Shanghai doctor Zhang Wenhong wrote on his Sina Weibo account on Monday. “There is a certain proportion of cases whom despite receiving two doses of the vaccine developed severe conditions that require oxygen supplementation. But the incidence of …
Fudan University researchers develop rapid test for COVID-19 virus
Photo of Fudan University’s Handan campus in Shanghai, Nov 14, 2018. [Photo/IC] Researchers from Fudan University in Shanghai have devised a method that offers detection of novel coronavirus nucleic acids in less than four minutes, much faster than the current method used domestically. The research team said the new approach is ultrasensitive and uses small, portable equipment. In the polymerase …
Why Use Flocked Sampling Swabs for COVID-19 Nucleic Acid Testing?
COVID-19 is a variant of the coronavirus that can cause pneumonia in humans. It is an acute respiratory infectious disease, highly contagious, and most people are susceptible. It is easily replicated in the upper respiratory tract of humans. Under normal circumstances, the new crown nucleic acid can be quickly detected within 96 hours after infection. Testers can find the virus …
Chinese health authorities adopts faster mass testing for COVID-19
Chinese health authorities have adopted faster-pooled tests for the coronavirus that allow professional labs to process 20 samples at a time. The updated testing techniques, based on the current practice of putting five or 10 swab samples together and testing as one, are aimed at sharply boosting the efficiency of virus testing, said the State Council inter-agency task force for …
How should nucleic acid testing sites be disinfected?
Carrying out nucleic acid testing can quickly detect virus infected persons, which is a very important strategic measure for COVID-19 prevention and control. At the same time, the safety of nucleic acid testing sites should not be neglected, and we should strengthen control and disinfection to prevent the risk of infection. Staffing and Protection Each sampling site should be equipped …
The United States Added More Than 1 Million New Cases of COVID-19 Yesterday
According to Bloomberg News, on January 3, the United States reported more than 1 million new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in a single day. This number created a new global record for single-day COVID-19 in a single country.and the new cases of COVID-19 on January 3 were almost twice as many as the new record set in the United States …
COVID-19 Outbreak Developing in Xi’an
Food couriers bring supplies to social workers at a closed residential community in Xi’an, Shaanxi province, on Saturday. [Photo by YUAN JINGZHI/FOR CHINA DAILY] A citywide lockdown and mass COVID-19 testing in Xi’an, capital of Northwest China’s Shaanxi province, have enabled the city to reduce the risk of transmission, but the local outbreak is still developing, local authorities said …
