How to be tested for the coronavirus in Russia

Who can pass a test for coronavirus?

The virus is eliminated for those who had no contact with sick people or residents of countries where today there is an epidemic. On this basis, it is impossible to pass a test for coronavirus without the presence of symptoms or reasons for the disease.

Turning to a medical facility to get help and to conduct the test will be difficult — who sends them to countries where the virus is not fixed, the test system used only for 1 thousand people. In the end, hospitals don’t check each applicant, and are forced to use tests only in cases where the risk of infection is justified.

How to understand without the test that the body is infected?

Unfortunately, the initial stages are difficult to distinguish from SARS coronavirus or influenza. Before you panic about a possible virus infection, answer the following questions:

You were in places of a mass congestion of foreigners (Iranians, Koreans, Italians, Chinese, etc.)?

Traveled abroad in the last 2 weeks (term incubation period)?

If so, are any infected in the country? You can check this in the statistics on the website of the world Health Organization.

Have you worked with foreigners in the last 2 weeks? They could be infected?

If the state has already detected infected, try to remember, You were in a medical institution in the recent past? Could I get there? Not be ruled out as a SARS infection.

If it is difficult to answer these questions or at least one You answered yourself Yes, check the symptoms with the symptoms of coronavirus:

headache;

cough;

fever;

shortness of breath;

diarrhea (rarely).

conjunctivitis (rare).

If You could answer Yes to the questions and see at most of the listed symptoms, contact your doctor or call an ambulance to the house, pre-warning that You suspect the coronavirus.

Doctors will not miss the problem and solve it in accordance with the algorithm and orders of the Ministry of Health. If the coronavirus is confirmed, You will be given medical help to eliminate symptoms and, in consequence, of the disease.

Contact your doctor on time, a short, safe and easy course of the disease.