What conditions need to be met for antigen testing in primary care?

Primary health care institutions in the reception of respiratory, fever and other symptoms and the appearance of symptoms within five days, with the ability to detect nucleic acid, should be preferred to carry out nucleic acid testing; do not have the ability to detect nucleic acid, antigen detection.

The main conditions to be met.

1. Sample collection, testing personnel should be biosafety training and technical operation training, and qualified.

2. With biological safety cabinets and other appropriate equipment, testing process to do a good job of medical personnel protection.

3. Testing operations should be carried out in a relatively independent and well-ventilated space; primary health care institutions with laboratory conditions, encourage testing operations in the laboratory.

4. The establishment of antigen test positive personnel reporting, transportation system and workflow.

Disposition of test results.

1. For antigen test positive personnel, primary health care institutions should immediately report to the jurisdiction of the CDC department, by the emergency center in accordance with the new crown pneumonia epidemic related personnel transfer work guide, the antigen positive personnel will be transferred to the set of fever clinic medical institutions for nucleic acid testing.

2. For antigen-negative persons, primary health care institutions should provide symptomatic treatment, instruct them to stay at home for observation, conduct antigen testing once a day for five consecutive days from the day of consultation, avoid social activities, wear masks properly, and wash their hands and ventilate their homes diligently. If the antigen result is negative until the symptoms disappear, no other interventions can be taken. Once the antigen result is positive, the positive person needs to report to the community immediately, and the community will contact the emergency center in accordance with the guidelines for the transfer of people related to the new coronary pneumonia outbreak, and transfer them to the medical institutions that have set up fever clinics for nucleic acid testing; the sampling swabs, sampling tubes, and test cards used by the positive person will be put into a sealed bag and transferred to the medical institutions for disposal as medical wastes.

Testing reagents are equipped. Primary health care institutions equipped with antigen detection reagents into the centralized bidding and purchasing, can be through the provincial centralized recruitment and purchasing, and constantly reduce the price of testing reagents, reduce the burden of testing costs.