What is the need for nucleic acid testing after the new "Class B" tube? Where do I go? Is there a fee?

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Since January 8, the new coronavirus infection has been implemented in “Category B”. After the implementation of the new policy, some people still need to undergo nucleic acid testing, what are the changes in nucleic acid testing requirements? How are the nucleic acid testing sites arranged?

According to the “New Coronavirus Infection Prevention and Control Program (10th Edition)” and other documents, community residents will be tested as much as they want to be tested, and different groups will be categorized to adopt testing strategies. Beijing on the basis of this classification of non-endemic, epidemic and epidemic serious three levels, graded classification prevention and control testing.

On January 8, the reporter visited some of Beijing’s convenient nucleic acid testing sites, found that the current test to adopt a “single person, single tube” model, the test results within 24 hours, the test does not charge.

After the “B class B management” no longer carry out the full nucleic acid, community residents “willing to test as much as possible”

According to the “Prevention and Control Program for Novel Coronavirus Infection (10th Edition)” and “Operational Guidelines for Prevention and Control of Novel Coronavirus Infection” issued by the joint prevention and control mechanism of the State Council, community residents will be tested as much as they want, and full nucleic acid screening will no longer be carried out; antigen and nucleic acid testing strategies will be adopted for different groups to detect serious illnesses in a timely manner. During an epidemic, nucleic acid testing should be based on “single-collection, single-test”.

In terms of key institutions, patients admitted to medical institutions with fever and other symptoms related to neocoronavirus infection are required to undergo antigen testing or nucleic acid testing, and corresponding treatment is provided according to the test results and their conditions.

For places where vulnerable people are concentrated, such as elderly institutions and social welfare institutions, during the epidemic period, the staff in the places will be tested for nucleic acid twice a week, and the cared-for persons will be tested for antigen or nucleic acid twice a week. Those with symptoms such as fever and respiratory infections should have one antigen test or nucleic acid test promptly. If there is a case of infection in the premises, the whole staff should be carried out in a timely manner nucleic acid testing, and subsequently determine the frequency of testing based on the test results and risk assessment. Foreigners entering such places, check the proof of negative nucleic acid test within 48 hours, and carry out antigen testing on site.

Large enterprises, construction sites and other key institutions where people gather, key party and government agencies and key industries, and staff in key places such as shopping malls and supermarkets to strengthen health monitoring. If fever, respiratory infections and other symptoms, antigen testing or nucleic acid testing can be carried out. If the test result is positive, do a good job of self-health management, according to the condition of timely medical consultation.

For community residents, those aged 65 and above, long-term hemodialysis patients, community residents at high risk of serious illnesses such as severe diabetics, and infants and children aged 3 and below should undergo antigen testing after developing symptoms such as fever and respiratory infections, or go to community-based nucleic acid testing sites for nucleic acid testing. If people living with the same resident appear to be infected, other people can carry out antigen testing daily for 3 consecutive days. Other residents with symptoms such as fever and respiratory infections may conduct their own antigen testing as needed or go to community-based nucleic acid testing sites for nucleic acid testing.

For student surveillance, the Prevention and Control Plan specifies that during an epidemic, localities can carry out daily surveillance of secondary and elementary school students for symptoms of novel coronavirus infection such as fever and dry cough, and perform antigen or nucleic acid testing as needed.

In terms of entry testing, according to the Notice on Interim Measures for the Movement of Chinese and Foreign Personnel, incoming personnel will be tested for nucleic acid 48 hours prior to travel and those with negative results will be allowed to come to China without having to apply for a health code from our embassies and consulates abroad and fill in the results on their customs health declaration cards. If the result is positive, the person concerned should come back to China after the result has turned negative. No longer implement full nucleic acid testing for incoming personnel, those with normal health declarations and no abnormalities in routine quarantine at customs ports can be released to enter the social side. Persons with abnormal health declarations or fever and other symptoms will be tested by Customs for antigens. If the result is positive, asymptomatic infected persons or light cases that are not combined with serious underlying diseases can take home, residence isolation or self-care, other cases advocate going to medical institutions as soon as possible for treatment. Those with negative results will be routinely quarantined by the Customs in accordance with the laws and regulations such as the “Law on Health and Quarantine of the State Border”.

In the new coronavirus detection service security, “new coronavirus infection prevention and control operational guidelines” clearly, according to the amount of demand for testing, set up enough convenient nucleic acid testing points in the community to meet the needs of community residents “willing to test as much as possible”; do a good job in retail pharmacies, drug network sales e-commerce and other antigen detection reagents supply, to meet the public’s own The company’s main goal is to provide the public with the best possible solution to the problem of nucleic acid testing, and to reduce the risk of infection from nucleic acid testing.

Beijing encourages the establishment of 3-5 convenient nucleic acid sampling points in each street (town)

On January 6, Beijing issued a series of documents to clarify the measures related to the adjustment of the new coronavirus infection to “B class B control”. Among them, the “Beijing New Coronavirus Infection Monitoring and Early Warning Work Program” clearly, district-based, classified as non-epidemic, epidemic and epidemic serious three levels, graded classification to implement social epidemic prevention and control response measures.

When the epidemic is not epidemic, in principle, no flow restriction measures will be taken. If fever and respiratory symptoms appear, promptly report to the unit and conduct antigen or nucleic acid testing. Positive infected persons do well in self-health management and promptly consult and treat according to their condition, and do not advocate working and studying with disease.

In the event of an epidemic, on the basis of measures taken during non-epidemic times, elderly people with underlying diseases, pregnant women and children with relevant symptoms should be promptly tested for antigens or nucleic acid, and promptly go to a medical institution when symptoms worsen. In case of infection of people living together, other people should do a good job of personal protection and strengthen symptom monitoring and antigen or nucleic acid testing.

Nursing institutions, social welfare institutions, medical institutions and other key institutions should strengthen health monitoring, nucleic acid testing is based on single-collection single-test, staff regularly carry out full nucleic acid, cared for staff regularly carry out nucleic acid or antigen testing, testing of the two groups of people can be carried out alternately.

Schools or preschools to strengthen the morning and afternoon checks and monitoring of absenteeism due to illness. Field stations, market superstores, exhibition and sales venues, conference centers, sports venues, cultural venues, entertainment and leisure venues, bathing places, places of religious activities, catering establishments, means of transportation and other places with a large capacity of people, confined spaces and prone to aggregated epidemics, strengthen the health monitoring of people in the places, and if fever and respiratory symptoms appear, carry out antigen or nucleic acid testing in a timely manner, and those who test positive do not take the disease to work. Check the proof of negative nucleic acid or antigen testing of participants at important events.

When the epidemic is serious, key institutions such as elderly institutions and social welfare institutions strictly enforce closed management. According to the “Work Plan for Prevention and Control of New Coronavirus Infection in Beijing Municipal Elderly Institutions”, during the closed management of institutions, closed-loop management of admitted personnel is implemented, and returning (newly admitted) elderly people and returning (newly hired) employees should first have a negative nucleic acid test certificate and negative antigen test results on site within 48 hours.

The General Plan for Prevention and Control of New Coronavirus Infection in Beijing provides that hospitals and third-party testing organizations are encouraged to set up 3-5 convenient nucleic acid sampling sites in each street (town) in accordance with the principle of “reasonable number and optimal layout” and according to changes in the epidemic situation. The sampling sites will be dynamically adjusted according to changes in the situation. In accordance with the principle of “testing as much as possible”, nucleic acid testing is carried out by a single person with a single tube, and mixed tube testing is abolished. Ensure adequate supply of antigen testing reagents to retail pharmacies and pharmaceutical network sales companies. Encourage and advocate residents to take the initiative to upload positive antigen test results to the “Beijing Antigen” app in a timely manner.

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Nucleic acid testing points for the convenience of the test does not charge, the results within 24 hours

On the morning of January 8, the reporter called 12345 hotline and 12320 Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention as a citizen to ask the question of “Where can people go if they need nucleic acid testing”.

The 12345 operator checked the reporter’s street and informed him of the nearby convenient nucleic acid testing sites. The operator of the Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention told the reporter that in addition to the convenient nucleic acid testing sites in the streets, you can also go to hospitals for nucleic acid testing. In addition, both of them said that at present, the convenient nucleic acid testing sites in Beijing do not charge fees, but need to confirm with the testing site staff.

The reporter went to the nucleic acid testing site in Cui Cheng Sheng Yuan, Fa Tou Street, Chaoyang District, according to the answer from the 12345 operator. At the site, the reporter saw a staff member working in the testing booth, responsible for both entering information and sampling. The staff said that the testing site provides free single-tube nucleic acid testing, and the report will be issued within 24 hours, working hours are 9:00 to 11:00 and 14:00 to 16:00.

On January 8, the nucleic acid testing site in Cui Cheng Sheng Yuan, Chaoyang District is open for business.

In the afternoon of January 4, the reporter also saw a nucleic acid testing site operating at the Fa Tau leisure square in Fa Tau street, showing that the working hours were 8:00 to 11:50 and 14:00 to 17:50, with only one staff member inside the booth. “Here to do is a mixed tube, 10 people are no problem then, is 24 hours out of the results, there may be abnormalities to send you nucleic acid abnormalities SMS. If you have a text message, you can do a single tube to you. No charge for nucleic acid testing.” The staff then told reporters, “before a day almost more than 2,000 people do nucleic acid, now do less people, more than 200 people a day, I can do it alone.”

On the morning of January 8, the reporter came to this nucleic acid testing site again and learned that the sampling and results time remains the same. “Now we do a single tube, currently also free, after free or not, open or not we are not clear, are waiting for notice.” The staff said.

A woman with a child had her nucleic acid done here, and said that she had not had a “yang” so far, so she came to have it done when she had time to confirm whether she was infected.

The reporters also found a nucleic acid test site in Laojuntang Village, Chaoyang District, which works from 9:00 to 12:00 and 14:00 to 17:00, and reports are issued within 24 hours. on January 4, the staff of the test site told reporters that “single person and single tube tests can be done here for free, which started at the end of December last year. Some people come to do nucleic acid is to see if they have ‘positive’, some are individual companies have related requirements.” On January 8, this nucleic acid testing site is still open for business, working hours, cost standards, and reporting time limits have not changed.

In addition to the convenient nucleic acid testing site with business hours, the reporter also visited a 24-hour nucleic acid testing site at Beijing West Station.

On January 4, the staff of the testing site told reporters that it offers single-person, single-tube nucleic acid testing services for a fee of 16 yuan, which requires an appointment on the small program of the relevant testing organization to pay the fee, and the results will be issued within 24 hours. on January 8, reporters saw on the small program that the testing site can still make appointments for nucleic acid testing, and there is no change in the working hours, fee rates and time of issuing reports. In addition to Beijing West Station, the applet shows that there are such 24-hour nucleic acid testing sites at Beijing South Station and the T3 and T2 parking buildings of the Capital Airport.

In addition, the reporter found that the nucleic acid testing sites recommended by the 12345 operator and shown on the mobile map were not the latest information, and there were discrepancies between the actual situation and whether they were open and working hours. The reporter called the Beijing CDC to ask if there was any public information or list of nucleic acid testing sites afterwards, and the operator said, “We will record your suggestion and help you appeal.”

On January 4, people were having their nucleic acid tested at a nucleic acid testing site in Laojuntang Village, Chaoyang District.

In addition to the free convenient nucleic acid testing sites and 24-hour paid nucleic acid testing sites, people can also go to hospitals for nucleic acid testing.

On January 8, the reporter saw on the “Beijing Medical” small program, Beijing Century Hospital, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Beijing Tongren Hospital and so on have opened the nucleic acid test registration appointment channel, and display “free medical service fee”. The testing time varies from hospital to hospital, with some open until 11 a.m. daily and some open in the afternoon.

The reporter went to Chongwenmen Campus of Beijing Tongren Hospital for nucleic acid testing on January 5 by appointment, and had to pick up the number and pay the fee (RMB 0 out-of-pocket) before 11:00 a.m. that day, and then went to the New Coronavirus nucleic acid testing clinic for testing. The medical staff on site told the reporter that the nucleic acid test results will appear on the Beijing HealthPod within about 12 hours. The reporter took the nucleic acid sample at around 11:15 on the 5th, and the time of the nucleic acid test, i.e., the time when the test results came out from the testing institution, was shown on Beijing Healthbao at 17:25 on the same day.