State Council: Further promote the capacity-building of nucleic acid testing of the new coronavirus

, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- The Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council has issued the Work Programme for Further Promoting capacity-building for the detection of neovirus nucleic acids (hereinafter referred to as the Programme).
program points out that timely nucleic acid testing is the key measure to implement the "four early" requirements, but also to do a good job of normal precision prevention and control of the basis and premise. The CPC Central Committee and the State Council have repeatedly deployed to improve the detection capability of the new coronavirus nucleic acid. All regions should attach great importance to the joint prevention and control mechanism (leadership group, command) to deal with the new crown pneumonia epidemic to strengthen organizational leadership, overall promotion of nucleic acid testing capacity-building work, and further improve the level of response to the outbreak.
The Program proposes that by the end of September 2020, all localities should have nucleic acid sampling and testing capabilities in three levels of general hospitals, infectious disease specialist hospitals, disease control agencies at all levels and at least one county-level hospital in the county. By the end of 2020, all secondary general hospitals will have nucleic acid sampling and testing capabilities, complete the construction of urban testing bases and public testing laboratories, give full play to the role of independently set up medical testing laboratories (here are called third-party laboratories), rationally lay out the regional mobile nucleic acid detection force, form a rapid response mechanism, with the ability to complete the detection of nucleic acids in a relatively short period of time in the event of local cluster outbreaks.
"Programme" from five aspects to make arrangements: First, to improve the daily nucleic acid detection capacity, the deployment of all areas in accordance with the level of urban areas above the level of at least 1 million permanent resident population of at least 1 standard and fill the principle of filling in, relying on the three-level general hospital to build urban testing base, mainly to undertake local testing tasks. Second, the construction of mobile nucleic acid testing force, the deployment of 100 public testing laboratories in the country, in accordance with each public testing laboratory testing capacity of 10,000 copies / day to build, equipped with mobile chamber laboratory, in the country to form 1 million copies / day of mobile testing reserve capacity. To guide and promote the healthy development of third-party laboratories in accordance with the law. In the event of an outbreak, third-party laboratories are involved in nucleic acid testing through government-purchased services. Third, the establishment of a zone mobile support system, the country will be divided into 8 zones, the overall area of public testing laboratories, large-scale third-party laboratories as a mobile testing team, each area formed 500,000 to 700,000 copies / day of mobile nucleic acid detection capacity, to achieve 5 to 7 days to basically complete the goal of full nucleic acid testing. Fourth, to strengthen the team of testing personnel, the current on-the-job technical personnel to complete the training by the end of September, the new expansion of the laboratory to add technical personnel to complete the training when the laboratory is completed, so that the institutions and personnel in place at the same time. Fifth, the establishment of nucleic acid detection resource information management system, to promote a comprehensive, accurate, dynamic grasp of nucleic acid detection institutions and sampling, testing personnel information, to achieve efficient and accurate mobility management.
The Program requires all departments to further raise awareness, implement responsibilities, increase policy funding support and guarantee, strengthen testing technology methods to optimize innovation and testing materials supply guarantee, do a good job in the supervision and management of laboratories, to ensure that the construction tasks are completed on schedule and with high quality.