Covid -19 Environmental and Surfacing testing development

安德森·喀里多尼亚的项目是将我们的冠状病毒(CV)环境检测能力扩展到医院以外，以造福于更广泛的社区。最近公布的数据表明，这种冠状病毒(新冠肺炎)可以根据环境条件在表面存活很多天：例如，在钻石公主号游轮上进行的一组测试发现，病毒是在所有乘客和船员离开17天后发现的。目前尚不清楚病毒通过表面传播的情况有多普遍，但已经显示了从表面传播到手到口的可能性。通过向全科医生诊所、护理院、药剂师、超市、巴士车主、牙医以及可能的学生宿舍等机构提供检测信息，我们可以让他们确保其设施尽可能保持不受病毒的影响。我们让特别是高危人群远离病毒，比不知疲倦地努力在感染后挽救他们的生命要好得多。我们还需要让每个人都感到，他们可以在社会孤立的情况下生活，而不会成为监狱。检测市场将比最初计划的要小，因为很明显，检测需要与遏制疫情相结合，而不是作为一种一般性的检测。这在医院环境中是最重要的，那里大约15%的致命感染发生在那里。作为项目的扩展和加速商业应用，我们认为结合人体和表面检测将允许一个更全面的疫情跟踪和追踪系统，就像亚洲所做的那样，但到目前为止在欧洲还不是这样。在环境中检测CV需要使用从高风险表面拭子收集样本。然后，拭子被装在冷藏箱中运回我们的实验室，使用QPCR机进行检测。这台机器可以准确地寻找新冠肺炎病毒的dna/rna，并可以识别出最少100条。一个人类细胞有92股DNA/RNA。安徒生喀里多尼亚已经是NHS的关键供应商：为长袍消毒和检测医院的环境污染。我们的两个测试实验室都是英国认证的，服务于整个英国。简历测试对员工来说并不是没有风险，但我们的整个团队都热情地投入时间来发展我们的能力，我们仔细地将风险降至最低。除了我们的员工之外，由于我们供应基础的宝贵支持，我们能够在几周内完成我们的测试服务。我很高兴地说，我们的棉签、病毒传输介质、QPCR机和试剂的整个供应基础都来自英国制造商。我们感谢他们的支持！

Andersen Caledonia's project is to expand our Coronavirus (CV) environmental testing capability beyond hospitals to benefit the wider community. Recent published data has shown that this Coronavirus(Covid-19) can survive on surfaces for many days depending on environmental conditions: e.g. A set of tests on the cruise ship the Diamond Princess found the virus 17 days after all passengers and crew had left. It is not known how common the transmission of the CV is via surfaces but the possibility of transmission from surface to hand to mouth has been shown.By providing testing information to organisations such as GP surgeries, care homes, pharmacists, supermarkets, bus fleet owners, dentists and possibly to student residences, we can enable them to ensure that their facilities stay clean of the virus as far as possible. It is much better that we keep especially high-risk people free of the virus than to work tirelessly to try and save them post-infection. We also need to make everyone feel that they can live their life in social isolation without it becoming a prison.The testing market will be smaller than initially planned as it has become clear that testing needs to be integrated with closing down outbreaks and not as a general test. This is most important in hospital settings where around 15% of all fatal infections have occurred.As a project extension and to accelerate commercial application we consider that combining human and surface testing will allow a more comprehensive outbreak track and trace system as done in Asia but not so far in Europe.Testing for CV in the environment requires the collection of samples using swabs from high risk surfaces. The swabs are then transported in cool boxes back to our laboratory for testing using a QPCR machine. This machine can look for exactly the DNA/RNA of COVID-19 virus and can identify as little as 100 strands. A single human cell has 92 strands of DNA / RNA.Andersen Caledonia are already a key supplier to the NHS: sterilising gowns and testing hospitals for environmental contamination. Our two testing laboratories are UKAS accredited and serve the whole of the UK. Testing for CV is not without risks to the staff, but our whole team have enthusiastically given their time to develop our capability and we have carefully minimised risks.In addition to our staff we have been able to build our testing service within a matter of weeks due to the invaluable support of our supply base. I am pleased to say that our whole supply base of swabs, viral transport media, QPCR machine and reagents has been sourced from UK manufacturers. We thank them for their support !