On March 12, the State Drug Administration issued a notice approving a change in the self-testing application application of new crown antigen products from Nanjing Novozymes, Beijing Jinwolf, Shenzhen Huada Ingen, Guangzhou Wanfu Biological, and Beijing Huakotai Biological. Since then, five new crown antigen self-test products are officially listed.
Antigen testing application for community residents
Community residents with self-testing needs can purchase their own antigen testing reagents for self-testing through retail pharmacies, online sales platforms and other channels.
Matters requiring attention
In order to ensure the quality of sampling and testing, residents need to read the instructions carefully and follow the prescribed requirements and procedures to standardize the sampling, spiking, and interpretation of results.
Disposal of test results
1. In case of a positive antigen test, regardless of whether or not there are respiratory, fever and other symptoms, residents should immediately report to their communities, which will contact the emergency centers to transfer the residents to the medical institutions that set up fever clinics in accordance with the guidelines for the transfer of people related to the new Crown pneumonia outbreak for nucleic acid testing. Sampling swabs, sampling tubes, test cards, etc. used by the positive persons are put into sealed bags and transported to medical institutions for disposal as medical waste.
2. Negative antigen test, asymptomatic residents can be closely observed, and then antigen test or nucleic acid test when needed; symptomatic residents, it is recommended that as soon as possible to set up a fever clinic medical institutions, nucleic acid test; if inconvenient to consult the clinic, you should be self-isolation at home, to avoid going out, and every day for five days to carry out a self-assessment of antigen.