According to China Central Television, who recently said that the covid-19 pandemic continues to constitute a “public health emergency of international concern” and suggested that countries should be prepared at any time. In this regard, Walter richardi, President of the World Federation of public health associations and covid-19 epidemic consultant of the Italian Ministry of health, said in an interview that those who believe that the covid-19 epidemic has ended and the practice of relaxing epidemic prevention and control in some countries are not desirable. Richardy believes that covid-19 virus is highly infectious and should be prepared for a new wave of epidemic that may appear this autumn.
According to the latest guidelines for the implementation of regional New Coronavirus nucleic acid detection Organization (Third Edition), we further clarify the requirements for nucleic acid detection in different regions. The urban areas with more than 10 million of the city’s resident population need to complete the regional nucleic acid detection tasks within 24 hours. In addition, antigen detection is an important supplement to nucleic acid detection. When the ability of nucleic acid detection is insufficient, cases or potential patients can be found earlier and isolated in time through antigen detection. Although antigen detection has a certain gap compared with nucleic acid in sensitivity and specificity, it has advantages in human investment and detection speed. The agency pointed out that combined with the characteristics of the current Omicron strain, it is expected that the detection demand of covid-19 is still large under the dynamic clearing prevention and control strategy.
According to the theme database of financial Associated Press, among the relevant listed companies:
Guangzhou Wondfo Biotech Co.Ltd(300482) New Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) antigen detection kit (colloidal gold method) is one of China’s first certified COVID-19 virus antigen detection reagents, and has obtained the EU CE certification and the relevant Importers’ local qualification.
Shanghai Labway Clinical Laboratory Co.Ltd(301060) is one of the nucleic acid testing institutions designated by Shanghai health system. At present, more than 10 central laboratories carry out covid-19 testing, covering Shanghai, Jiangsu, Anhui, Hubei, Hunan, Chongqing, Guangdong and other places.
