Autoridades sanitarias chinas adoptan pruebas masivas más rápidas para COVID-19

Las autoridades sanitarias chinas han adoptado pruebas agrupadas más rápidas para el coronavirus que permiten que los laboratorios profesionales procesen 20 muestras a la vez.

Las técnicas de prueba actualizadas., basado en la práctica actual de poner cinco o 10 torunda samples together and testing as one, tienen como objetivo aumentar drásticamente la eficiencia de las pruebas de virus, dijo el grupo de trabajo interinstitucional del Consejo de Estado para COVID-19 response.

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

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

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, con 14 new locally transmitted cases reported Tuesday.

Fuente: Xinhua