Because I bought cold medicine at a pharmacy, I was notified by the street office a few days later that I needed to do a nucleic acid test. Do you think there should be a charge for such a test?

Because I bought cold medicine at a pharmacy, I was notified by the street office a few days later that I needed to do a nucleic acid test. Everyone felt that such a test should not be charged. Because during the current epidemic, nucleic acid testing in risk areas will be done more frequently, so it should be done in large quantities and there should be no charge.

The substance detected by nucleic acid is the nucleic acid of the virus. Nucleic acid testing is to search for the presence of nucleic acid of foreign invading viruses in the patient's respiratory specimens, blood or stool to determine whether he or she is infected by the new coronavirus. Therefore, once the nucleic acid test is "positive", it can prove that the virus is present in the patient's body.

Principle of nucleic acid detection:

All living things contain nucleic acid, which includes deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and ribonucleic acid (RNA). The new coronavirus is a virus that only contains RNA. , specific RNA sequences in the virus are markers that distinguish the virus from other pathogens. After the emergence of the new coronavirus.

Chinese scientists completed the analysis of the entire genome sequence of the new coronavirus in a very short period of time, and discovered the specific nucleic acid sequence of the new coronavirus by comparing it with the genome sequences of other species. During clinical laboratory testing, if the specific nucleic acid sequence of the new coronavirus can be detected in the patient's sample, it should be prompted that the patient may be infected by the new coronavirus.