Hanoi quickly tested nearly 4,000 people

Tonight, the Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control of Hanoi City said it had counted a total of nearly 30,000 people from Da Nang to Hanoi in July. Today, districts and towns quickly tested nearly 4,000 schools.

In addition, 87 cases returning from Da Nang with signs of cough and fever were sampled for testing and the results were also negative.

Medical staff in Yen Hoa ward, Cau Giay district took blood samples for testing for people returning from Da Nang on July 30.

According to observations, at 3:30 p.m. this afternoon, Yen Hoa Ward Medical Station, Cau Giay District set up a tarpaulin in front of the yard to conduct rapid testing.

In more than an hour, 20 test cases received negative results for nCoV.

Holding the paper announcing the negative result, Ms. Nguyen Thanh Ngoc (45 years old, Yen Hoa ward) shared her sense of relief.

Ms. Do Thi Thu Ha, Director of Cau Giay District Medical Center, said that the unit has organized many training sessions for staff in the area to ensure quick, accurate, and technically correct testing samples.

`In addition to testing at the ward health station, we have restarted the rapid response team to localize and take mobile samples in areas with suspected cases,` Ms.

Medical staff put blood samples into the nCoV rapid test kit.

In Hoan Kiem district, there were more than 1,000 people returning from Da Nang. By 5:30 p.m., the district medical center organized rapid testing for 391 people in 7 wards, all of whom were negative for nCoV.

Hai Ba Trung District has nearly 1,500 cases returning from Da Nang.

Mr. Khong Minh Tuan, Deputy Director of the Hanoi Center for Disease Control (CDC), said the rapid testing is expected to be completed in early August. The test kit is produced by Korea, through blood sampling for

Previously, since May 2020, CDC Hanoi has trained more than 200 district medical staff in rapid testing skills, this number in wards and communes is more than 1,000.

Currently, Hanoi records 2 Covid-19 cases related to Da Nang, including a 23-year-old man in Nam Tu Liem district and a 76-year-old man in Tay Ho district.

Hanoi simultaneously conducts rapid Covid-19 tests

Hanoi quickly tests people returning from Da Nang.

According to Dr. Pham Quang Thai, Deputy Head of the Department of Infectious Disease Control, Central Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, the principle of the nCoV rapid test is to find antibodies that the body produces to fight certain antigens (pathogens).

If the amount of antibodies is high, the test will be positive.