They are called XIII. district test point who have milder symptoms, the ambulance service said. They have to line up, but they enter relatively quickly, but inside they use ordinary pens to write down the data and take a sample from in front of them. This is how sampling works on Dévai Street.

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A unique case was the longest wait of the day in XIII. street sampling station of the Dévai district – said Pál Győrfi, spokesman for the National Ambulance Service to the question of hvg.hu. We contacted the ambulance service after our readers indicated that our visiting colleague experienced it too, and 444.hu also wrote that there are people in a long line on the street waiting to be tested for the coronavirus.

Emergency personnel perform the required sampling for coronavirus tests ordered by GPs. Paramedics and typical medical school volunteers who help them get home mostly, but patients with suspected infections who have milder symptoms are asked to come in person to get a sample. For this, several locations have been designated throughout the country, the location of the ambulance service on Dévai Street in Budapest.

Choose this option for those who do not have severe symptoms and can resolve the route without using public transport

– wrote the spokesperson, who said that the sampling was fast and scheduled, those who came for the tests would arrive at the agreed time, and the longest wait presented in 444.hu was a unique case on Wednesday, caused by a temporary problem of IT already resolved.

However, wait outside, according to an ambulance spokesperson.

from an epidemiological point of view it is more advantageous than waiting indoors.

However, the queues on the street are not unique to Dévai Street. An hvg.hu employee saw a 40-50 meter line in front of the test station one Monday through Friday morning last week, and one of our readers reported that when he went there to give a sample two weeks ago, he had to queuing for a long time, although he added that the wait was not long. A reader with milder typical coronavirus symptoms (fatigue, headache, loss of taste and smell) arrived within 10 minutes of arriving at the specified time.

His experience inside was also interesting. According to he told hvg.hu by phone, three people received the visitors in a waiting room, two with security equipment – they took the samples – and an administrator, who in turn collected the TAJ cards with his own hands, without gloves. , and distributed after recording the data.

Everyone had to write their own data on the sampling tubes, with four pens circling the crowd. However, the process was quick, he said, and in addition to “seeing whoever was coming in front of us gagging,” they reached down his throat and nose to take a sample. So he was basically satisfied because he had already received his otherwise positive result the next day.

According to Pál Győrfi, the ambulance service has already carried out more than 300,000 samples, and they are constantly trying to shorten the waiting time.

In the emergency situation that also affects our country, some media are trying to criticize the epidemiological defense, the work of health workers and then, coloring a story, awaken the spirits and undermine the confidence of the people.

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Coronavirus: 17 outpatient sampling points have been established nationwide


MTI
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If someone needs to be tested for the contact investigation, the GP can request an appointment at one of the 17 outpatient sampling points if the applicant is asymptomatic and has no complaints, said Bence Rétvári, parliamentary secretary of state at the Ministry of Human Resources, on Sunday.

Never before have so many samples been taken in Hungary, but it is not known which tests were used


hvg.hu
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Gergely Gulyás previously spoke about rapid antigen-based tests that will increase testing capacity. It is about whether these were included in the PCR tests.