Four nucleic acid test laboratories named Huoyan, or Fire Eye, were put into use in the Guiyang International Exhibition and Convention Center in Guiyang, capital city of Southwest China's Guizhou province, on Sept 17.
It allows daily detection throughput to reach 200,000 single tubes, and 2 million copies can be detected per day.
The laboratories were established by Guizhou Huada Gene Technology Co, a resident company of the Guiyang National High-tech Industrial Development Zone (Guiyang HIDZ).
"Usually it takes about 20 hours for one laboratory to be built, debugged and put into use," said Huang Hailong, general manager of the Guiyang HIDZ company.
Now it will only take two days to finish the construction, debugging, testing and personnel training for the four laboratories, Huang added.
The newly-built laboratories solve the problems of high construction cost, long construction period, and difficult logistics and transportation of traditional laboratories in some areas, and can meet the anti-epidemic needs of rapid deployment.
The Huoyan laboratory adopts PVC antibacterial and environmentally-friendly materials. It forms a double-layer membrane structure in the form of an air arch. The outer membrane is soft, extensible and cold-resistant, and the inner membrane is strong and resistant to aging.
A negative pressure environment in the cabin is achieved through a fresh air system to ensure the safety of the laboratory.
In addition, the Huoyan laboratory is equipped with many high-precision instruments. Among them, the MGISP-NE384 automatic nucleic acid extraction and purification instrument can compress the traditional extraction process from 6 hours to 20 minutes under the same throughput, and the daily detection throughput of a single machine can exceed 10,000 cases.
A Huoyan laboratory can report results in as little as 4 hours.