Internet und Telefon - Telekom repariert Hochwasser-Störung - Wirtschaft sueddeutsche.de - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sueddeutsche.de Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
27 January 2021, 10:02 am EST By
Just ahead of the Lunar New Year, Chinese health officials have started deploying new COVID-19 anal swabs for detecting coronavirus, which they claim as a more accurate way of testing compared to the traditional nasal and throat swabs as well as antibody tests.
The report was originally reported by Chinese state media outlet the Global Times.
(Photo : Lisa Maree Williams / Stringer)
Some experts still believe nasal swabs are more accurate.
New Method of Coronavirus Detection
According to Li Tongzeng, the deputy director in charge of infectious diseases in the Beijing You an Hospital, one of the people that proposed anal swabs, this method is much more accurate as the virus apparently survives longer in the anus or excrement than those taken from upper body tracts.