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12月3日新西兰卫生部消息，政府处理了500万份COVID-19测试 。
卫生部副部长艾莎·维拉尔(Ayesha Verrall)博士祝贺新西兰各地的检测团队达到了500万次检测里程碑。 艾莎·维拉尔说:”议今天，又处理了31，780次测试，使自2020年大流行开始以来的总数达到5，005，959次。这真的是一个令人难以置信的和持续的团队努力的成果。成千上万的人组成了我们熟练的劳动力进行测试”。
“正是由于他们每个人的辛勤工作和奉献精神，我们看到了如此多的测试进行，处理和跟进。我还要感谢数百万接受过检测的新西兰人，有些不止一次的测试。这些测试中的每一项都有助于我们了解该病毒及其在新西兰的流行情况。对于参与这一进程的每个人，我要感谢你们的贡献。你们已经有所作为。 我知道我们的COVID-19检测系统由充满热情的员工领导，他们在顶级实验室工作，生产出符合国际标准的准确检测结果。我们的测试系统为新西兰提供了很好的服务。它依靠准确且高度灵敏的测试来支持我们的消除策略，即通过PCR分析的鼻咽拭子来测量病毒RNA的存在。
新西兰的检测阳性率是衡量检测系统有效性的关键指标，一直是世界上最低的，这让我们有信心在社区中遗漏的病例会极少。
例如，在过去的一周里，新西兰的阳性率从0.41到1.03不等。随着我们引入COVID保护框架，PCR检测仍然至关重要。从本周开始，快速抗原检测已向新西兰的所有企业和医疗保健机构开放，以补充PCR检测 。
这些测试可以在15分钟内提供结果，但需要高病毒载量，因此在个体感染期的早期阶段更有效。对于无症状的监测，建议每周进行两到三次监测试验。健康建议是，如果您有COVID-19症状，请继续进行PCR检测。PCR 检测仍然比快速抗原检测更敏感。
新西兰已经有充足的这些检测试剂盒，到本周末，还有380万台快速抗原检测试剂盒库存。检测将继续成为我们集体应对COVID-19的基石″。
3 Decembr，Five million COVID-19 tests processed
Associate Minister of Health, Dr Ayesha Verrall has congratulated testing teams right around New Zealand for reaching the five million tests milestone.
Today, an additional 31,780 tests were processed, taking the total since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020 to 5,005,959.
This really is an incredible and sustained team effort. Thousands of people make up our skilled workforce carrying out the testing,” Dr Ayesha Verrall said.
It’s because of the hard work and dedication of each of them, we have seen so many tests carried out, processed and followed up.
I also want to thank the millions of New Zealanders who have been tested, sometimes more than once.
Each one of those tests has contributed to our knowledge about the virus and its prevalence in New Zealand. To everyone who has been part of the process, I want to acknowledge and thank you for your contribution. You have made a difference.
I know our COVID-19 testing system is led by passionate staff, working in top-class laboratories producing accurate test results to international standards. New Zealand has been very well served by our testing system.
It underpinned our elimination strategy by relying on an accurate and highly sensitive test – namely the nasopharyngeal swab analysed by PCR to measure the presence of viral RNA.
.New Zealand’s test positivity rate, a key measure of the effectiveness of the testing system, has consistently been among the lowest in the world, which gives us confidence we’re missing few cases in the community.
This past week for example, New Zealand’s positive rate has ranged from 0.41 and 1.03 percent.
PCR testing remains crucial as we introduce the COVID Protection Framework.
From this week, Rapid Antigen Tests has been made available to all businesses and health care settings in New Zealand to compliment PCR testing.
.These tests can provide a result in 15 minutes but require a high viral load, so are more effective in the early stages of an individual’s infectious period. For asymptomatic surveillance testing two or three times a week is recommended.
The health advice is to continue to get a PCR test if you have COVID-19 symptoms. PCR tests are still more sensitive than Rapid Antigen Tests.
There are good supplies of these tests already in New Zealand, with another 3.8 million Rapid Antigen Tests in stock by the end of this week.
Testing will continue to be a cornerstone of our collective response to COVID-19,” Dr Ayesha Verrall said.
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