Public Health Minister, Dr. Rafael Sánchez Cárdenas announced during his 8 April 2020 press briefing that teams from the Ministry of Public Health would be in San Francisco de Macorís on Thursday, 9 April to carry out extensive rapid response tests. He said that a good number of PCR tests would also be available. Overall, more than 2,000 tests are expected to be carried out in the coronavirus hotspot.
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El Nuevo Diario
9 April 2020