Anal Swab Covid-19 Test Won't Make You Walk Like Penguins, China Warns Public After Bizarre Viral Video
3 years, 11 months ago

Anal Swab Covid-19 Test Won't Make You Walk Like Penguins, China Warns Public After Bizarre Viral Video

News 18  

Chinese authorities were on Monday compelled to assure the public that they won't waddle like penguins following the anal swab coronavirus test. China introduced the new testing method, which involves inserting a swab 1.2-2 inches into the rectum, and the authorities say it can detect the virus more accurately than oral or nasal methods. According to Chinese State TV, anal swabs won't be used as widely because the method isn't as "convenient". "If we conduct anal swabs for nucleic acid testing, it would increase the detection rates of patients and lower the chance of a missed diagnosis," the expert added.

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Saliva testing for Covid-19 quicker, safer than nasal swabs: Study
2 years, 9 months ago

Saliva testing for Covid-19 quicker, safer than nasal swabs: Study

Hindustan Times  

According to a study led by the American Society for Microbiology, saliva samples can identify Covid-19 more quickly than testing with nasal swabs. The findings have implications for improving public acceptance of Covid-19 testing, reducing the cost of mass Covid-19 screening and improving the safety of healthcare workers who conduct testing. "That made us wonder whether saliva was better for …

Covid test that doesn't use painful swabs is better than lateral flows, says Oxford University
3 years, 4 months ago

Covid test that doesn't use painful swabs is better than lateral flows, says Oxford University

Daily Mail  

A new Covid test said to be better than a lateral flow could become the new first line of defence against the virus in hospitals — and it doesn't require a painful swab. When carried out at the bedside of patients, the new test could give a diagnosis in just 10 minutes — compared to the half an hour it …

Covid-19 Swab Samples Can Now be Collected From Your Mobile Screens
3 years, 6 months ago

Covid-19 Swab Samples Can Now be Collected From Your Mobile Screens

News 18  

A team of researchers has developed an accurate, non-invasive, and low-cost method of testing for Covid-19 using samples taken from the screens of mobile phones. The team led by University College London researchers analysed swabs from smartphone screens rather than directly from people, and found that people who tested positive by the regular nasal swabbing PCRs were also positive when …

Skin swabbing could be useful in detecting Covid-19, research suggests
3 years, 9 months ago

Skin swabbing could be useful in detecting Covid-19, research suggests

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Simple skin swabbing could be useful in helping to help detect …

China's Anal Swab Tests for Covid-19 Have Not Gone Down Well With Foreign Visitors. Here's Why
3 years, 10 months ago

China's Anal Swab Tests for Covid-19 Have Not Gone Down Well With Foreign Visitors. Here's Why

News 18  

Foreign visitors have been upset by China’s anal swab tests for COVID-19, prompting complaints of inconvenience and even psychological trauma, and stoking debate over their necessity. South Korean visitors can now submit stool samples instead of “Chinese authorities taking them directly”, Choi Young-Sam, a spokesman of the South Korean foreign ministry, said on Tuesday. Travellers flying into Shanghai must undertake …

Chinese video shows people 'waddling' after COVID-19 anal swabs
3 years, 11 months ago

Chinese video shows people 'waddling' after COVID-19 anal swabs

Daily Mail  

Chinese authorities have labelled a viral video 'fake' after it purportedly showed people walking 'like penguins' following an anal swab to test for the novel coronavirus. A viral video purports to show people walking stiff-legged with their arms slightly open while leaving a hospital following an anal swab test. Chinese authorities have called the video 'fake' China's quarantine centres have …

China: Anal swab tests the latest embarrassment emerging from Covid-19 crisis
3 years, 11 months ago

China: Anal swab tests the latest embarrassment emerging from Covid-19 crisis

Live Mint  

Amid a flare-up of Covid-19 cases across the country, Chinese citizens may have to undergo an embarrassing anal swab test for virus detection, prompting some of them to vent their ire on social media. Beijing has rolled out the anal swab tests for key groups, focusing on persons returning from abroad and living in high-risk areas, state-run Global Times reported …

China deploys anal swabs to test for Covid-19
3 years, 11 months ago

China deploys anal swabs to test for Covid-19

Deccan Chronicle  

BEIJING: China has begun using anal swabs to test those it considers at high risk of contracting Covid-19, state TV reported, with social media users and travellers squirming over the invasive procedure which doctors say can be more effective in detecting the virus. Officials took anal swabs from residents of neighbourhoods with confirmed Covid-19 cases in Beijing last week, broadcaster …

Testing gives a genuinely healthy choice
4 years, 5 months ago

Testing gives a genuinely healthy choice

China Daily  

A medical professional takes a throat swab sample for a nucleic acid test at Beijing Anzhen Hospital, affiliated to Capital Medical University, in Chaoyang district in late June. Shaun Bliss, a British technology consultant who visited Beijing recently, said he took the test in Haidian district on June 29 prior to his train trip to Hebei province. Donna Du, the …

Self-swabbing COVID-19 tests accurate, safe: Stanford study
4 years, 6 months ago

Self-swabbing COVID-19 tests accurate, safe: Stanford study

India TV News  

Test samples collected by people who swabbed their own nasal passages yielded results for the virus that causes COVID-19 that were as accurate as samples collected by a health care worker, according to a small study. In the study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, 30 participants, who previously had tested positive for COVID-19, collected their own …

Self-swab tests for coronavirus work just as well as ones used by clinicians
4 years, 9 months ago

Self-swab tests for coronavirus work just as well as ones used by clinicians

Daily Mail  

Self-swab tests for the novel coronavirus work just as well as those performed by healthcare workers, a new study finds. Researchers, led by insurance provider UnitedHealth Group, found positive cases in more than 90 percent of patients, which is the same rate at which clinicians The team says patient-administrated tests will reduce the risk of exposure for doctors and nurses …

What's Shanghai experience of COVID-19 management?
4 years, 9 months ago

What's Shanghai experience of COVID-19 management?

China Daily  

The reasons for these additional requirements are based on the following: After two consecutive respiratory tract secretion swab tested negative, we are also looking for stool specimen testing negative. Besides the two above listed criteria, we also require Task Force expert physicians to review patients' chest imaging films and confirm the resolution of the lung parenchymal pathologies prior to discharge. …

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