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Temporary inspection office that takes citizens to visit▶ Click here to enlarge the view
It was estimated that 19 people were confirmed through anonymous tests at a temporary screening test center installed in the metropolitan area to preventively test the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19).
According to the Central Defense Countermeasures Headquarters on the 16th, a total of 13,629 anonymous tests were conducted at temporary detection offices in Seoul, Gyeonggi and Incheon from the morning of the previous day until 6 pm, of which 19 cases were positive. . He left.
The regions where confirmed cases were found were 17 in Seoul and 2 in Gyeonggi.
There were 12,356 cases of “ nasopharyngeal smear gene (PCR) amplification ” using a sample collected from inside the nose, representing 90.7% of the tests performed in the temporary screening laboratory the day before.
There were 819 cases of ‘alvia sample PCR’ using acupuncture and 454 cases of ‘rapid antigen test’, resulting in just 30 minutes.
Quarantine authorities ordered a second nasopharyngeal swab PCR test if the rapid antigen test was positive, but it was determined that no one had undergone a second test so far.
By region, a total of 8,336 tests were performed in Seoul, including nasopharyngeal swab PCR, saliva PCR, and rapid antigen test the day before. There were 4,965 games and 328 Incheon.
There were a total of 73 temporary detection offices in Seoul, Gyeonggi, and Incheon that were open until 6 p.m. the day before.
To preventively find ‘hidden infected people’ in the metropolitan area, temporary screening tests are installed sequentially at about 150 locations, including Seoul Station and Gangnam Station, where there are many floating populations, and intensively inspected for three weeks until January 3 of next year.
In the laboratory, anyone can undergo an anonymous test by providing a mobile phone number regardless of whether symptoms that may be suspected of COVID-19, such as cough, fever, sore throat, etc., develop or are epidemiologically related.
The anonymous test is to avoid being avoided due to concerns about the ‘stigmatization effect’ of the confirmed person, and was partially implemented during the Itaewon club group infection in Seoul in May and the second epidemic in the metropolitan area in August. .
Current status of anonymous inspections in temporary detection inspection centers in the metropolitan area▶ Click here to enlarge the view
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