หน่วยงานด้านสุขภาพของจีนเริ่มใช้การทดสอบจำนวนมากเพื่อตรวจหาเชื้อโควิด-19 อย่างรวดเร็ว

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 ไม้กวาด 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 โควิด-19 response.

The new testing approach will be introduced across the country while ensuring quality results, มันกล่าวว่า.

The task force has issued guidelines on the updated techniques, specifying requirements for sample collection, พื้นที่จัดเก็บ, laboratory processing, and disposal of post-test samples, ท่ามกลางคนอื่น ๆ.

Mass testing has been a common practice in China’s containment of domestically transmitted resurgence of COVID-19. In Tianjin’s latest coronavirus wave, the municipality of 13.9 million people that neighbors Beijing conducted three rounds of citywide mass testing in one week since the infections with the highly infectious Omicron variant were first reported on Jan 8.

The city has seen a drop in the number of infections, กับ 14 new locally transmitted cases reported Tuesday.

แหล่งที่มา: Xinhua