China explodes corona testing, anyone, anytime, anywhere

 China explodes corona testing, anyone, anytime, anywhere

[Beijing 11th Reuters]-China is building hundreds of new coronavirus test facilities and is accumulating the number of tests. The purpose of this is to increase the inspection system for even healthy people, and it is possible to suppress domestic infections. The aim of the authorities is to carry out virus inspections on anyone, anywhere in the country. Documents and various official notices indicate that the government is rapidly expanding its inspection capabilities and is already trying to expand its world-leading posture to the end.

he National Health and Safety Commission announced on August 8 that it will standardize the new coronavirus nucleic acid test. 

Wuhan, Hubei Province, where the new corona epidemic was first confirmed, invested 900 million yuan ($127 million) last month and inspected about 6 million people in 10 days.

Unlike many other countries, China is widely tested. Ben Kering, an infectious disease expert at the University of Hong Kong, expects many institutional organizations in China to have staff regularly tested.

Procurement bidding documents since early May this year from hospitals and disease control centers (CDCs) in various provinces list the items procured for new inspection facilities, which is a nationwide swift plan.

The most expensive item is the PCR tester, which can be documented at a price of up to $99,000. According to the list, there are 257 PCR facilities purchased by Chinese laboratories in the last 30 days. The average was 21 per month for the past year. These numbers are only a small part of the whole. Not all plans are detailed in public documents.

In Wuhan, for more than two weeks since the confirmation of a new corona patient in January this year, there were no hospitals equipped with testing equipment for the urban population of 1.1 million.

Most of the new testing facilities are now located inside the hospital, and the installation cost is approximately 100,000-3 million yuan ($15,000-420,000).

Some medical institutions requested that all equipment be made in China, while others were requesting certain foreign products. Products such as Swiss Roche ( ROG.S ) and US Bio-Rad Laboratories ( BIO.N ).

The Chinese government says that it has a production capacity of 5 million test kits per day. Local governments impose tight price controls on manufacturers.

According to the announcement on May 9, Hubei Province is lowering the delivery price to manufacturers in exchange for large orders, nucleic acid test is 16.78 yuan per kit, antibody test is as low as 12.9 yuan. Sometimes.

According to the ministry, medical institutions will only be able to deliver from a few companies that have negotiated prices at the government level, or they will not be able to test for viruses.