Good To Know: COVID-19 Swab Test & Home Quarantine Care Launched

Stepping out for a Covid swab test and home quarantine in case needed may be difficult for many seniors. Here are two packages that may help ease that problem.

COVID-19 swab test from Portea

Portea is offering Covid Swab testing at Home. The company has already conducted 40+ test in Bangalore successfully. Here’s what you need to know:

Test name: SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Qualitative PCR.

Sample Type: Throat Swab ( Oropharyngeal Specimen ) & Nasal Swab (Nasopharyngeal Specimen )

Report Availability: 3 days

Price: Rs 4500 ( Includes home sample collection + processing the sample + Logistics)

Available in: Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Kolkata, Delhi NCR & Mumbai

Good to know: A doctor’s prescription is needed as its a mandatory requirement to undergo the test. If you feel the need to undergo the test but don’t have a prescription, Portea can arrange a teleconsultation with a doctor.

Home Isolation & Remote Monitoring Packages from Portea

Package 1 for INR 5,000

What’s on offer:

1. Daily follow up calls (15-17 days)
2.  Doctor Tele-consultation (3)
3. Nurse Consultation (2)
4. Nutritionist Consultation (1)

Package 2 for INR 12,000

What’s on offer:

1. Daily follow up calls (15-17 days)
2.  Doctor Tele-consultation (3)
3. Nurse Consultation (3)
4. Nutritionist Consultation (1)
5. Pulse Oximeter
6. BP Monitor
7. Medical Kit (N95 mask, gloves, sanitizer, thermometer)

Available in: Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, NCR, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Chandigarh, Indore, Vijaywada and Pune.

For details, contact: https://www.portea.com/

Home Quarantine Care Program from Nightingales

This is a package-based home quarantine support program that provides an end to end clinical care solution for “Pre-symptomatic/mildly symptomatic or Asymptomatic COVID patients. Any customer/patient who has been advised home quarantine for 14 days can avail this program.

What it includes:

Home Quarantine Team with the following:

– General Physician

– Nurse

– Physiotherapist

– Psychological Counselor

– Nutritionist

Components of the program:

1. Multi-disciplinary Home Quarantine Team

2. Patient monitoring trackers

3. Quarantine Kits- COVID care kit, medicine kit, safety kit

4. Family support and advice

5. Nutritional advice and support

6. Mental Health and well-being support

7. End Quarantine support

Home Quarantine Care Packages:

Home Quarantine Care – Advantage – Rs.3999

Home Quarantine Care – Advantage Plus – Rs.7999

Home Quarantine Care – Advantage Plus + – Rs.11999

Good to know: The Advantage package is available PAN India, Advantage plus and Advantage plus+ are available in Bangalore, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Pune, and Chennai. This is a stand-alone program, not in partnership with the Government.

They do not offer COVID-19 testing.

To know more, contact: https://www.nightingales.in/