Hong Kong is studying with Shenzhen

Due to the different requirements for nucleic acid testing in Hong Kong and the Mainland, when Hong Kong citizens travel to the Mainland through the Shenzhen Port, they often need to go through many tedious testing procedures. Recently, the SAR government is studying the feasibility of "two places, one inspection", reducing the pressure on the port, and preparing for the early clearance of the future.

According to the Hong Kong Sing Tao Daily Network reported on the 17th, Lu Chongmao, director of the Hong Kong Medical and Health Bureau, said that after the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia, there was often a problem with blocking in Shenzhen Port. He introduced that the mainland now mainly uses "standard nucleic acid testing". After passenger transit, the results can be available at the hotel. Generally, it takes 6 to 8 hours. "OK", the result is 30 minutes to 1 hour.

It is understood that if Hong Kong citizens currently want to go to the Mainland through Shenzhen Bay Port, they must hold effective nucleic acid tests within 24 hours. After arriving at the side port of Shenzhen Bay Hong Kong, nucleic acid testing was also required on the spot, and as a result, negative can go to the Shenzhen port. After arriving at the Shenzhen Port, you need to do nucleic acid testing again, which means that passengers who pass the customs from Hong Kong to Shenzhen must receive 3 tests within 24 hours, and each time it takes time to wait for the test results.

However, if you want to truly implement the "two places, one inspection", experts believe that you need to solve different problems in the Mainland and Hong Kong testing standards. In Hong Kong, the CT value of nucleic acid detection is higher than 30, but the Mainland is more than 40 in the Mainland, and the standard is higher than Hong Kong. Because of this, there are some phenomena that originally measured negative overseas passengers when they arrived in the Mainland.

Sing Tao Daily cited Huang Libao, director of the Hong Kong Molecular Pathological Inspection Center, saying that the community testing center in Hong Kong has adopted the same traditional "standard nucleic acid test" as the Mainland, and the difference between the "fast nucleic acid detection" and the port is mainly due to the inspection in the laboratory. Methods, reagents and instruments are different. As for the accuracy in terms of accuracy, it is related to many factors, but the traditional method is more accurate, "maybe a few CT values".

Lu Chongmao said that because the Shenzhen -Hong Kong port is not far away, the "two places and one inspection" should be feasible at the technical level. In order to avoid virus output to Shenzhen, it has tried to adopt the consistent test arrangement as the mainland standards. He said that passengers entering the mainland from Hong Kong have been positive from 2.5%to 0.03%today. If you can achieve "zero infection", it is expected to further increase the number of transit and "health stations" in the Mainland, and even reduce the isolation time. However, he described that the transit arrangement is not the negotiation or gambling of "you lose me", and the Hong Kong government must do his best to "keep the gate of the South." Lu Chongmao suggested that for those who come to the Mainland and Hong Kong, the detection and laboratory of nucleic acid should be performed to the same team to ensure that the quality of the test is consistent, and the test must be performed before leaving to prevent virus output. ▲ (Li Yao)

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