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/ August 12, 2020

Race against clock at Da Nang COVID-19 test lab

As Da Nang grapples with a new wave of COVID-19 cases, lab technicians at the Da Nang Center for Disease Control (CDC) are working to extremes to meet the increased testing demand.  The demand for COVID-19 testing in Da Nang has risen to thousands of new inquiries per day accompanied by test samples arriving at local test labs. The workload that the lab technicians have been given has turned out to be as intense as their colleagues who work directly with patients battling against COVID-19.  As of August 8, the medical department of Da Nang City reported a total of 40,451 clinical samples having been collected since July 25, when the central tourist city recorded Vietnam’s first local transmission of COVID-19 after 99 days. Since then, 405 cases traced to Da Nang, the country’s outbreak epicenter, have been documented nationwide. Sleepless nights Pulled out of bed by an emergency call on the morning of August 3, Dr. Le Thanh Chung, deputy director of Da Nang CDC, rushed to the agency’s headquarters on Phan Chau Trinh Street to inspect the situation. There were problems with the clinical specimens being delivered, the practitioner on duty reported.  Relying on the glimmering street lights to see, four medical staffers of the sample reception team perused the pages in the report, referencing every single sample to probe the issue. After 30 minutes of scrutiny and cross-checking by phone with lower-level medical facilities, the staffers let the samples enter the headquarters building, ready to undergo the next processing steps. Circumstances like these have become a part of the day-to-day routine for Da Nang CDC staff since the city confirmed the resurgence of locally-transmitted COVID-19 cases nearly three weeks ago. Da Nang CDC has kept its sample reception unit open around the clock for sample submission from lower-level hospitals, due to the fact that sample collecting takes tremendous …

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