[hiyer]

In India - at least in the cities - you don't even need to step out for a Covid test. You can request a technician to come and collect your sample from the comfort of your home, and you'll get the result in a few hours or the next day at most. I'm not sure where the commenter's parents live, but if they live even in a moderate-sized city, they're being unnecessarily paranoid.

[reacharavindh]

Thanks for bringing this up. I will check whether such a facility exists in the village where my parents live. If you’re curious, they live in Srirangam, Trichy, TamilNadu.

[cocoland2]

A lot of testing centers / labs such as Lister or Thyrocare can do in person sample collections, such as this one below are available.

Its quite easy to get a test done at home. (Mentioned of lister metropolis because they had come home for some other sample collection and mentioned of this) . You can check aggregator apps as well that provide this list.

https://www.metropolisindia.com/parameter/trichy/covid-19-rt...

[hiyer]

> If you’re curious, they live in Srirangam, Trichy, TamilNadu

Wonderful place, except for the heat :-). I've visited there (for the temples) on a few occasions.