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Original title: Demand for nucleic acid tests from people returning home during the Spring Festival has exploded. Some companies claim that the number of orders placed in a single day has multiplied by about 40
Our reporter Zhang Min
Returning individuals must take a 7-day nucleic acid test report to become a hot spot for Spring Festival trips.
On January 20, the Comprehensive Team of the State Council for the Joint Mechanism for the Prevention and Control of the New Coronavirus Pneumonia Epidemic and the Directorate of the Central Rural Work Steering Group formulated the “Work Plan for the Prevention and Control of the New Epidemic of Coronary Pneumonia in Rural Areas in Winter and Spring “. The “Plan” clarifies that returnees must return home with a valid negative nucleic acid test result for the novel coronavirus within 7 days. After returning home, they will implement home health monitoring for 14 days. During this period, they will not collect or move around and perform a nucleic acid test every 7 days.
Currently, the daily production capacity of nucleic acid detection reagents in my country is more than 6,655 million copies. During the Spring Festival, there may be a high demand for nucleic acid tests. In view of the possible increase in the number of tests, how are all the relevant nucleic acid testing locations and agencies prepared?
According to data from the Ministry of Transport, an estimated 1.7 billion passengers will be shipped during the National Spring Festival in 2021, an average of 40 million passengers per day, an increase of more than 10% from 2020. The return to home with a negative nucleic acid test will be implemented from the beginning of the Spring Festival on January 28 and will end after the end of the Spring Festival on March 8. The number of nucleic acid tests during the Spring Festival is conservatively estimated to be 170 million (10%).
In response, several publicly traded nucleic acid testing companies told the “Securities Daily” reporter that orders have increased.
“At 12:00 noon on January 21, the number of orders for nucleic acid tests in a single day on the Golden Mile Medical e-commerce platform increased approximately 40 times compared to the previous day. From 0: 00 to 12:00: 00, the number of visitors to the Golden Mile Medical Tmall flagship store alone exceeded 3 Ten thousand times. In order to help prevent and control the epidemic during the Spring Festival travel period and satisfy personal nucleic acid testing needs as much as possible, Golden Mile Medical has created a special team to ensure quality of services for e-commerce operations, sampling, logistics and customer service. Golden Mile Medical will be based on areas local Government epidemic prevention and control measures and policies, combined with the needs of online users, coordinated production capacity, updated the number of orders d e customers that can be received in real time on each e-commerce platform, and extended the sampling time as appropriate to ensure that each laboratory can issue reports within the promised time. “Relevant people from Jinyu Medical introduced the Securities Daily reporter.
“At present, the commercial demand for nucleic acid testing of the company’s new crown has increased considerably. Recently, the company has continued to increase the stock of related raw materials and supporting consumables. The company’s production department also continues to work overtime to ensure market supply. “Shengxiang Bio told reporters.
As market demand grows, what about upstream and downstream capacity from various locations and related nucleic acid tests?
At the press conference of the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council held on January 13, Guo Yanhong, Inspector of the Office of Medical Administration and Management of the National Health Commission, presented the current nucleic acid testing capabilities nationwide and said a total of 8,437 medical and health institutions across the country can perform nucleic acid detection, the detection capacity of a single tube reached 12.55 million copies per day. As far as expectations go, existing nucleic acid detection capabilities are still under pressure to meet the needs of the Spring Festival.
Wu Jinglei, director of the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission, told a series of press conferences on the prevention and control of the new corona pneumonia epidemic in Shanghai that at present, the maximum number of nucleic acid tests in a single day in Shanghai. 728,000, which can meet the needs of daily testing and testing of people returning home during the Spring Festival.
Relevant people from Jinyu Medical Company introduced the “Securities Daily” reporter that at present, the company’s single-day nucleic acid testing capacity can reach 350,000 cases and will prioritize ensuring completion of tasks organized by relevant government departments including assurance of nucleic acid testing in key epidemic areas Inpatient and accompanying patient testing in municipal medical institutions. At the same time, the company will make every effort to organize part of the production capacity to provide services to the staff returning home.
The relevant person in charge of Shengxiang Biological introduced to the reporter that the company currently has a daily production capacity of 2 million units, which can be further increased in accordance with market needs and business development.
Daan Gene said on the interactive platform on January 13 that the company’s current average daily standard production capacity of new corona nucleic acid detection kits is about 1.5 million copies / day.
As the scope of nucleic acid testing for returnees increases, prices have also come into the limelight.
With changes in market supply capacity, the cost and price of domestic nucleic acid test consumables continue to decline. For example, in late December 2020, the Guangdong Province Drug Exchange Center announced the “Announcement of Proposed Screening Results of the Proposed Acquisition of the Novel Coronavirus Nucleic Acid Testing-Related Medical Consumables Alliance of the Guangdong Province Drug Exchange Center. ” The provinces involved in bulk purchasing include Guangdong. In 11 provinces including Jiangxi, Henan, Hunan, Guangxi, Hainan, Chongqing, Yunnan, Shaanxi, Qinghai and Ningxia, the results of the winning bid showed that minimal nucleic acid extraction it was RMB 1.0025 / person, and the minimum sampling equipment was 0.42 RMB / person.
However, this is not the total price for completing a nucleic acid test. An important part of the cost of nucleic acid testing is the cost of medical testing services (including labor costs, transportation costs, protection costs, test equipment, etc.).
Reporter for “Securities Daily” learned from a public hospital that the current single price of nucleic acid testing is 120 yuan. The price given by an external testing agency is 178 yuan per hour.
Although many places have announced the reduction of the guide price for nucleic acid tests, industry experts said that the guide price adjustment is only for public hospitals, and the third-party testing agency independently charges prices and implements adjustments. of market prices.
