Dong Thap is capable of testing to confirm COVID-19

On May 21, the Provincial Center for Disease Control and Dong Thap General Hospital were granted certificates of sufficient capacity to confirm the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Vice Chairman of the Provincial People’s Committee Doan Tan Buu, leaders of the Department of Health, CDC Dong Thap visited the testing process at CDC Dong Thap. (Photo: dongthap.gov.vn) Accordingly, the Director of the Pasteur Institute in Ho Chi Minh City under the Ministry of Health issued a decision to recognize the ability to confirm the SARS-CoV-2 virus by Realtime PCR (RT-PCR) for the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Disease Control Department (Dong Thap CDC) and Dong Thap General Hospital. The laboratory for diagnosing SARS-CoV-2 by RT-PCR at these 2 units meets the biosafety standards level 2, facilities, equipment and human resources meet the standards prescribed by the Ministry of Health. Medical. To increase reliability, Dong Thap CDC and Dong Thap General Hospital performed a PCR test to diagnose COVID-19 (62 samples from Dong Thap CDC, 20 samples from Dong Thap General Hospital). As a result, 100% of the samples tested by the two units gave similar results to the Pasteur Institute in Ho Chi Minh City. In terms of testing capacity, on average, Dong Thap CDC and Dong Thap General Hospital are capable of testing from 250-300 samples/machine per day. In urgent conditions, the demand for testing is high, can be equipped with an automatic extractor to increase testing capacity. Previously, CDC Dong Thap only performed a screening test for SARS-CoV-2, if a positive case was suspected, the sample had to be transferred to the Pasteur Institute in Ho Chi Minh City for confirmatory testing. Comrade Doan Tan Buu – Vice Chairman of the Provincial People’s Committee emphasized that being recognized as having sufficient testing capacity to confirm the SARS-CoV-2 virus not only affirms the professional capacity of the 2 units, and meets the time schedule. time to identify COVID-19 cases, reducing dependence on upline. This is very important in helping Dong Thap proactively implement measures to trace, monitor, isolate as well as implement synchronous measures to prevent the COVID-19 epidemic.