At present, Shanghai has taken turns to carry out nucleic acid sampling and screening viruses, and behind the results, there is a group of "virus hunters" wearing protective clothing in the laboratory all night to do testing.
On April 29, 2022, a reporter from Jiefang Daily Shangguan News walked into the Shanghai Lanwei Medical Laboratory in the Shanghai Hongqiao Linkong Economic Park in the west of Changning and visited the gene amplification (PCR) laboratory dedicated to nucleic acid detection of the new crown virus by a leading local testing company in Shanghai. Here is the company's central laboratory in Shanghai, and the 1, 2 and 3 districts are arranged in turn, which are the reagent preparation area, the specimen disposal area and the amplification area. The test tubes collected from the sampling point and accompanied by sampling swabs were tested and disposed of for several hours and finally presented with the results or paper versions of the reports that were available on our mobile app.
Testing in the lab is a highly focused, high-speed job that is extremely draining on the brain and physical effort. From beginning to end, the specific work involves more than a dozen links such as specimen reception, information entry, nucleic acid extraction, gene amplification, result interpretation, cleaning and elimination after detection, and garbage disposal.
Shanghai Lanwei Medical Laboratory, is currently one of the largest third-party testing institutions in Shanghai with the largest nucleic acid detection capacity, the actual daily testing volume is maintained at more than 300,000 tubes, the production capacity of 4 laboratories is fully open, and the theoretical daily production capacity can reach 400,000 tubes.