How to buy cheap antigen tests in Glovo
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Glovo is a company that was born mainly for the delivery of food at home. But little by little it was expanding its services, to the point that you can order practically anything. And the last service that it has added to its extensive list is surprising to say the least: now you can request antigen test to find out if you have Covid-19
Actually, what you can request is not the test itself, but an appointment for a he alth worker to come to your home and give you the test. The idea is to prevent infected people from moving unnecessarily.
How to order an antigen test by Glovo
If you need to take an antigen test and want to use Glovo for it, all you have to do is enter the application. There you will find the laboratory that does this type of test as one more service. And you can make your purchase just like you would any other order.
A few minutes after you have made your purchase, you will receive a phone call from the laboratory in charge of carrying out the tests. In this way, you can make an appointment to have the antigen test performed. Within less than two hours, a he alth worker will have come to your home to do the test. As the antigen tests stand out especially for the rapidity of the results, in approximately 15 minutes you will know if you are infected or not.
The laboratory in charge already performs antigen tests at home, so the only novelty is that of using Glovo as a means of making an appointment .
Can I also order a PCR?
The concerted laboratory allows both antigen tests and serological tests to be requested through Glovo. The first are used to find out if you are infected ( although it is advisable to confirm it by PCR later), while the second will let you know if you have been infected and have antibodies. But at the moment it is not possible to request a PCR through this means
It is also important that you take into account that this service is not currently available in all the places where Glovo provides services. At the moment, you can only request an antigen test in Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Granada and Bilbao.
If the response from users is positive, it cannot be ruled out that it will be extended to more cities or that there will be more laboratories that are encouraged to offer this service .
The idea of offering antigen tests to detect Covid arose after the increase in sales of parapharmacy products that took place at from confinement.
And what do doctors think about this?
Although for he alth professionals it may be a bit shocking that they can order antigen tests through an app, the truth is that the Your response has not been too negative. Both the Official College of Nursing of Madrid and the same establishment at the national level ensure that, as long as a he alth professional is in charge of carrying out the tests, in principle there should be no difference with respect to going to a laboratory.
What all he alth professionals do emphasize is that it would be dangerous if tests could be purchased so that each person could perform them individually.And it is that if the samples are not taken correctly, it is easy to give false negatives
It is also important that we take into account that it should be a he alth professional who will tell us if we should have an antigen test or not. There are more and more people who decide to carry out these types of tests on their own, but doing more and more tests is not a solution to end the pandemic. Mask, hygiene and social distance remain the key tools.
