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SELF-TEST KITS OK'D FOR EARLIER DETECTION

Zou Shuo
Updated: Mar 14,2022 07:20    China Daily


China has granted approval to five COVID-19 antigen test kits made by local
companies to be used for self-testing as a way to beef up early detection
capabilities to cope with the more evasive and transmissible Omicron variant.

In two separate notices, issued on March 11 and March 12, the National Medical
Products Administration allowed five companies－Beijing Savant Biotechnology,
Nanjing Vazyme Biotech, Guangzhou Wondfo Biotech, Beijing Jinwofu Bioengineering
Technology and Shenzhen-based BGI PathoGenesis Pharmaceutical Technology－to
revise its COVID-19 antigen test kit's certificate to allow self-test use.

The approvals come after the State Council joint prevention and control
mechanism against COVID-19 said on March 11 that it would allow the public to
buy COVID-19 antigen self-test kits in stores and online.

The COVID-19 antigen test is a supplementary diagnostic method to the mainstream
nucleic acid testing to improve early detection capability, according to a
notice published on the National Health Commission's website.

The antigen test kits can be used by people who have had fever or respiratory
symptoms within five days, by people who are under quarantine and other
residents who simply want to take a test, the notice said.

People who test positive with COVID-19 antigen kits should immediately contact
local authorities regardless of whether or not they show symptoms, it said.

A nucleic acid test result is still needed to confirm novel coronavirus
infection. People who test positive with an antigen test but negative with a
nucleic acid test should undergo quarantine, close observation and repeated
nucleic acid testing, the notice added.

LBX Pharmacy said in a WeChat post on March 12 that the first shipments of
COVID-19 antigen test kits will be available at its stores in 12
provincial-level regions within days and that the kits can show test results
within 15 minutes.

Cowell Pharmacy said the antigen test kits will be available at its stores in
Henan, Jiangxi and Liaoning provinces and its online store on WeChat soon.

Zhang Wenhong, head of the infectious disease department at Fudan University's
Huashan Hospital, said the nucleic acid test is more accurate than COVID-19
antigen tests but it takes longer to get the results.

China has successfully maintained a zero-COVID policy through its rapid mass
nucleic acid tests, but the Omicron variant is more transmissible and requires
faster testing, he told Paper.cn.

Nucleic acid tests require sophisticated machines and professional personnel,
while the antigen test can be done at home or in ordinary hospitals, he said.

But the antigen test is less sensitive than the nucleic acid test, he said, and
at the early stage of the infection the antigen test might not be able to detect
infection due to a low amount of the novel coronaviruses in the body, he said.

Many COVID-19 patients contracting the Omicron variant are asymptomatic, so the
COVID-19 antigen test helps boost testing abilities, and the authorities can
quickly identify infected people through home testing to reinforce the
zero-COVID policy, he added.


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