On April 20, I saw the news that Yandex is paying for coronavirus tests for everyone and immediately applied. Today a nurse came to my house and took a test.
The application is submitted on the website help.yandex.ru/covid19-test. It is necessary to fill in the passport data and indicate the address where to come to take a smear.
It was not possible to submit an application on the first try - the system was buggy and gave a message about an error loading a photo, despite the fact that no photo was required. Technical support answered some nonsense in the spirit of "you probably uploaded the photo incorrectly" (I repeat, no photo is required and there is nowhere to upload it). But from the tenth time, the application was still sent. A message has arrived in the mail.
Two days passed and yesterday a message came that the system chose me and the test will be the next day.
After confirmation, a message came that the test time would be announced in the morning. Today at 7 am I received a message in the mail and SMS, in which it was again written "tomorrow".
I asked the support and they answered that it was a mistake, the test will be today.
After a while, SMS came "Please wait for the paramedic today: the estimated arrival time is the same as in the previous SMS. Sorry for the confusion, try not to eat or drink 3 hours before the test, testing will take place today".
I had breakfast at 9:30, calculating that it would be three hours before 12:30, but the paramedic arrived at 11:40. Fortunately, it turned out that it took two hours not to eat, not three.
The swab is taken from the mouth and it is really painless and not particularly unpleasant.
The result will be sent to the mail in two days.
© 2020, Alexey Nadezhin
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