Doctors in Spain perform anal calibration tests to stumble upon CoVI-19, he revealed.
This occurs after China announced that it had made the change, because experts in it that a rectal garage provided a more reliable result.
In fact, the strategy already used in Galicia, in northern Spain, as revealed through the news channel CTRVG on January 27.
The Galician Health Ministry has since confirmed that is uses anal swabs to test for the virus, but added that the method is mostly reserved for patients who are intubated.
“They are carried out on patients who are in a very serious condition and are intubated and cannot go through a nasal PCR test,” a spokesperson told El Correo on Monday.
Health professionals in Andalusia told Olive Press that the approach had not taken the maximum populated region.
“We still use anal swabs to trip over the coronavirus in Andalusia,” said a nurse from the Velma Hospital emergency branch in Seville, “but I think they are less invasive than nasal tests. “
The anus tests began in Beijing and Qingdao in China last week, the government revealed.
Scientists told reporters that the tests would be more accurate than nasal, blood and saliva tests.
China has said that it uses the anal check approach in other people who are maximum maximum probably to be infected, such as a traveler who arrives and tourists in quarantine hotels.
Dr. Li Tongzeng, from the Youijing Hospital, said that anal tests increased the detection rate in other inflamed people because the virus lives longer in the anus than in the respiratory tract.
The strategy is controversial in China, with many saying they feel humiliated through the process.
Others that Anal Swab took about 10 seconds.
A Weibo user from China joked: “I have had two anal tests. They also took a swab from my throat at the same time… Both times I was so afraid the nurse would forget the change the swab between them.”
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