India's first drive-through coronavirus testing facility just opened in Delhi. Could this help India flatten the curve like South Korea?
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00:30This initiative was primarily started keeping in mind the maximum safety and the minimum
00:48exposure that is there for the patient and the medical staff while collecting COVID-19
00:55samples.
00:56Here in the heart of West Punjabi Bagh Central Market, we've started a drive-thru service
01:01where all bookings are taken by prior appointments that have to be done on the website.
01:56The apprehension that I heard from my patients was that the same technician who's going to
02:04multiple houses and collecting COVID-19 samples, although we use the highest level of infection
02:09control protocols and personal protective equipment, people still have that apprehension.
02:14And the second was also for collection centers of COVID-19, when there are a dozen of people
02:19coming in the day to test for COVID, entering from the same entrance, sitting on the same
02:23chair.
02:24So there's always that minute chance and also excessive wastage of disinfection material
02:29when you have a collection center.
02:31So here what we have is seamless and very safe with minimum exposure of the virus transmission.
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