Written Exercise 165 – MY FIRST EXPERIENCE OF TAKING A NUCLEIC ACID TEST
In the past week, there were four confirmed COVID-19 cases and two asymptomatic carriers in the district where I live. To make matters worse, I have visited one of the places in the past two weeks where one of them had been. To prevent the coronavirus from spreading in the district and in the city, people who have visited the places where the COVID-19 patients had been and all the residents in the districts have been ordered to be tested. That’s why I took my first nucleic acid test this afternoon.
It was 34 degrees Celsius and broiling hot today. The temporary test stations were set up outdoors in every community in our area. Unfortunately, there was no one in our community, so we went to my friend’s. We saw a long line of people when we got there. There were out of large spaces for people to queue up, they could not maintain a social distancing. There were crowds. It was disturbing to think that there might be some asymptomatic carriers in the crowd. However, we did not have any choice. Actually, the test station started to collect samples at 2pm, but my friend queued up around 11am this morning. We joined my friend at about 2:30pm. We finished the test around 5pm, which means it took people 5-6 hours to take a nucleic acid test. Luckily, we stood in a line under an overpass / flyover, which helped to block out the sun and we took stools with us for seating while waiting for the test.
There were some interesting scenes that I saw either in person or in the videos people shared on social media that people pasting a notice on their back or their chair back with " I am representing my family of 2,3,4 people and so on" written on.
Now I am waiting for the result. I hope it comes out tomorrow morning.
