Source: Diagnostic Lock Boundary
The epidemic prevention and control in China has shown a trend of liberalization, and we must be prepared to fully meet the normalization of the "post-epidemic era". In particular, grass-roots medical institutions will truly become the sentinel points for epidemic prevention and control.
Today, a red-headed document known as a super bomb, the Notice on Printing and Distributing the Application Plan for The Detection of New Coronavirus Antigens (Trial) was released. The "Notice" said that in order to further optimize the new crown virus detection strategy and serve the needs of epidemic prevention and control, it was decided to add antigen detection as a supplement on the basis of nucleic acid testing. Moreover, the Programme clearly states that the programme is carried out by primary medical institutions.
There are three main categories of people who are suitable for this test:
1) Those who go to primary medical and health institutions for treatment, accompanied by respiratory tract, fever and other symptoms and have symptoms within 5 days;
2) Isolation and observation personnel, including personnel in home isolation observation, close contact and sub-close connection, entry isolation observation, sealing and control area and control area;
3) Residents of communities with antigen self-testing needs.
Rapid antigen testing, which looks for the RNA of the virus through nasopharyngeal swab samples, although sacrificing some degree of accuracy, is very rapid and simple, and can produce results in about 15 minutes. From a global perspective, European and American countries have long been using this test method, and in Hong Kong, this test method has also played an important role.
Industry insiders believe that this is the country's last resort, but also within expectations, the current nucleic acid testing scale is large, the cost is high, the dynamic zeroing of the play is endless, the country has paid a huge amount of financial, material, manpower, can not be sustained for a long time, open antigen detection is sooner or later, the first step is definitely to first let go of the professional version, and then may be released from the self-test version.
The promulgation of this document also means that the domestic epidemic prevention and control has shown a trend of liberalization, and we must be fully prepared to meet the normalization of the "post-epidemic era". In particular, grass-roots medical institutions will truly become the sentinel points for epidemic prevention and control.
Primary medical institutions no longer need to be shut down one-size-fits-all. Xu Yucai, former deputy director of the Shanyang County Health Bureau in Shangluo City, Shaanxi Province, believes that this is a sign of a major adjustment of epidemic prevention and control measures, "The grass-roots level can carry out antigen testing, and there is no need to forward all hot clinics!" ”
Also excited about this policy is the in vitro diagnostic (IVD) market, where the stock prices of IVD-related companies such as Wanfu Biologics, BGI Genomics, and Mingde Biologics have soared.
"Stirring market, trembling heart!" As one investor said, the testing market will usher in another round of new outbreaks. According to the pharmaceutical investment tribe, "At present, the domestic new crown antigen self-test kit factory unit price is about 1-1.5 US dollars, the frequency of use is assumed to be 2 times a month (with reference to overseas policies according to the minimum frequency), calculated according to the total population base of 1.4 billion, it is expected that the domestic new crown antigen self-test kit market is expected to reach 17.7-266 billion yuan in a single month." "Even if the price declines in the future, it is still a market of 100 billion yuan per year, and the overseas new crown testing market has reached the trillion level."
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