Today, in order to live a full life with visiting public places, cafes, restaurants, meeting friends and family, you need to be confident in your health and that you are not a carrier of the COVID-19 virus.
The easiest and fastest way to take a PCR test is to use the service of self-taking a smear and courier delivery of it to the laboratory. Many medical laboratories now provide this service.

"From the moment of contact until the PCR result is obtained, no more than six hours pass. At the same time, the laboratories independently upload the test results to the UMIAS and state services portals," the operational director of the medical laboratory Sergei Ambrosov explained to Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

According to him, self-taking a PCR smear for coronavirus can speed up testing and reduce the waiting time for PCR test results for laboratory clients by at least 5 times. "The advantage for a person is that the test can be taken in any place convenient to him - at home or at work. This is especially important for Moscow, whose residents are in constant time pressure. Separately, the category of people with limited mobility should be singled out. For them, such a service may be the most in an affordable way to monitor your health and seek medical help in time, "the expert added.

Earlier, the representative of the World Health Organization in Russia Melita Vuinovich noted in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta that tests for coronavirus can be divided into two categories: those that check whether a person is infected now, and those that check whether a person has been infected earlier. “While PCR tests are reliable, they require significant laboratory infrastructure and resources, which can be problematic in resource-limited settings. Rapid antigen tests are a promising alternative because they are cheaper, faster, and easier to perform. However, reliability varies. WHO has issued guidelines for their use and provided a list of uses in emergencies, ”said Vujnovic.