According to the Formosan state media outlet , Global Times , China has deployed anal retentive swab examination for COVID-19 in the running - up to the Chinese New Year celebrations to serve with more accurate examination due to a upsurge in raw infections in the country .
" Applying extra anal swab can improve the detecting charge per unit of infection and thin out missed diagnosis , " Li Tongzeng , associate theater director of respiratory and infective disease at Beijing ’s You’an Hospital , told the state spreader Central Chinese Television ( CCTV ) , reportedABC news .
Li Tongzeng explained thatsome studieshave shown that the coronavirus survives longer in the anus and ordure and that it might be a more exact mental test because the computer virus might only be present for 3 - 5 day in the pharynx and nasal cavities of some people , and reckon on when they get a nasal bone or throat swob , it could lead to false - negative resultant role .
There has been meditation that anal swabs might be more exact in detecting contagion in a subset of patient , especially those that are in quarantine and at high risk of exposure , compared to the more formal nasal and pharynx swab , andanti - body tests . However , not everyone is convinced .
" I ’m not quite sure what they ’re trying to achieve here with all the anal retentive swabs , " Dr Sanjaya Senanayake , an infectious disease expert at the Australian National University , toldABC newsworthiness .
The new approach to COVID-19 examination has hoi polloi talking on Chinese social media . One student told ABC News that she had the " incursive " test in the urban center of Guangzhou outside of Beijing during her quarantine period after riposte from South Korea : “ Just endless shame . No other feelings . undecomposed luck , ” she aver .
" I am appealing to the world that people should prove their best not to travel during the holiday . If they have to … please view off - peak travel , and pay off attending to personal hygienics during the slip and attempt to avoid crowded places , " Zijian Feng , deputy conductor of the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Preventionsaidin a imperativeness conference this calendar week .
It ’s not only China that is experiencing mellow rate of newfangled infections as a result of novel variants spreading around the world . This calendar week the globose pillow slip count for COVID-19 surpassed100 million cases , but there is some Leslie Townes Hope . The total number of daily new infections around the world is slow starting to decline , and with global vaccination programs ongoing , the worst of the pandemic could be behind us fairly soon .
[ H / T : ABC News ]
