Why can't I take a pressed cotton swab with me after getting a new crown vaccine?

recently, the number of people vaccinated has increased, and the treatment of cotton swab after injection has raised concerns. Recently, the Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention issued guidelines for the prevention of nucleic acid environmental pollution in new crown vaccination sites. According to the guidelines, after the injection is completed, there shall be a person responsible for supervising the subject to discard the cotton swab at the press vaccination site in a designated recycling container and shall not be taken away from the site. The guidelines also require that medical waste at vaccination points be collected centrally and that all medical waste not located at temporary vaccination points in medical institutions be brought back to central treatment. Vaccine packaging boxes and vaccine instructions should be kept in the vaccination unit, according to medical waste treatment.
many eligible people are now getting the new crown vaccine, so why can't cotton swab be taken away? Is there a health risk that new coronavirus tests may be present in an environment where the "designated vaccination site" may be positive? In addition, there are people concerned, after vaccination can you touch with your hands? Will it remain on the clothes? Let's listen to Wang Guiqiang, director of the Infectious Diseases Department at Peking University's First Hospital.1. Vaccination point environment or positive public need not worry too much
Now we emphasize that in the vaccination area must be standardized to do the appropriate operation, to avoid vaccine pollution of the surrounding environment, resulting in (others infected) nucleic acid positive. It involves the training of medical personnel, the specification of the whole operation process, the whole medical treatment, has produced a document.
2. Vaccination points should be enhanced with medical waste disposal
cotton swab itself is contaminated with vaccine ingredients and may also cause some so-called contamination problems that need to be discarded in designated places in the vaccination area and cannot be taken away.
3. Cotton swab is inactivated virus is not contagious
We also stressed that the vaccination area so-called environmental pollution, we do not have to panic, it is not contagious, these vaccines themselves are inactivated viruses, that is, nucleic acid testing can be positive.
4. Injection points do not need and do not require nucleic acid environmental monitoring
vaccine is not contagious, there is no need for environmental monitoring in places such as hospital vaccine monitoring points.
. The vaccinated public does not have to worry about the residue on clothing
cotton swab on clothing is not a big problem, will not cause the problem of transmission, the vaccine itself is all right.
6. Immune status varies from person to person After vaccination to do a good job of protection
is now mass vaccination, in the vaccination process, we must continue to do a good job of personal protection, after vaccination, but also to do a good job of protection.