Recently, the Comprehensive Group of the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council officially released the "Application Plan for Antigen Detection of The New Coronavirus (Trial)", promoting the monitoring mode of "antigen screening and nucleic acid diagnosis", and adding antigen detection as a supplement to nucleic acid detection. Community residents can purchase antigen detection reagents for self-testing, and the State Food and Drug Administration has recently approved the listing of related products.
The reporter learned that meituan, Jingdong and other e-commerce platforms have successively launched new crown antigen self-test products. Today (13th) at noon, the new crown antigen self-test products have been launched in the Ustuan, users search for "new crown antigen self-test", or click on the "new crown self-test" area in the drug channel, you can find related products.
The reporter saw on the purchase page released today by meituan to buy drugs that the product is a new coronavirus antigen test kit, which will be shipped on March 20 after making an appointment to buy, and users can conduct home self-testing according to the product manual, and the results can be observed in 15 to 20 minutes.
According to the relevant person in charge of Meituan Medicine, Meituan Medicine has also joined hands with many chain pharmacies such as the People's Pharmacy, GUO Pharmacy, Gaoji Medical, Neptune Star, Dashenlin Pharmacy, Quanyuantang Pharmacy, etc., and is expected to launch new crown antigen self-test products synchronously with offline pharmacies within a week, providing users with 30 minutes of drug delivery service.
Jingdong Health has also reached sales cooperation with a number of enterprises, and the first batch of new crown antigen self-test products will be opened online reservations at Jingdong Health in the near future. At that time, consumers can search for "new crown antigen self-test" through the Jingdong APP to make an appointment on the detail page, and orders can be purchased after the product is officially sold.
It should be noted that antigen detection is not a complete substitute for nucleic acid testing.
The "Basic Requirements and Procedures for Self-Testing of New Coronavirus Antigens" issued by the National Health commission emphasizes that antigen testing is generally used for sample testing during the acute infection period, that is, within 7 days of the appearance of symptoms in suspected populations. Both positive and negative antigenic results in suspected populations should be further nucleic acid testing, and positive results can be used for early triage and rapid management of suspected populations, but cannot be used as a basis for confirming the diagnosis of new coronavirus infection. Nucleic acid testing remains the basis for confirming COVID-19 infection.