{"id":137662,"date":"2020-03-12T12:46:29","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T12:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ny1.dr1.com.do\/wordpress\/?p=137662"},"modified":"2020-03-12T16:25:16","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T16:25:16","slug":"ministry-of-public-health-covid-19-hotline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/03\/12\/ministry-of-public-health-covid-19-hotline\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministry of Public Health Covid-19 hotline"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"546\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Ministerio-de-Salud-Diario-Libre.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-137211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Ministerio-de-Salud-Diario-Libre.jpg 546w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Ministerio-de-Salud-Diario-Libre-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 546px) 100vw, 546px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Public Health has habilitated telephone lines for calls regarding possible cases of Covid-19. The Ministry of Public Health said on 11 March 2020 that so far the five confirmed Covid-19 cases have all been of persons who were abroad when they caught the disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People can call 809 686-9140, or 809 200-4091 for toll free calls from provinces from 8am to 8pm. There is also a Whatsapp telephone at 829 542-7009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Public Health is educating Dominicans to differentiate between the symptoms of a common cold, influenza and the Covid-19 virus to act accordingly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Symptoms of the common cold are coughing, nasal congestion, sneezing, sore throat. Symptoms of the flu are fever, coughing, runny nose, vomiting, diarrhea, fatigue. Symptoms of Covid-19 are fever, coughing, respiratory difficulties, yellow-green phlegm, fatigue, spot showing on x-ray.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/elemental.medium.com\/how-to-tell-if-you-have-the-flu-coronavirus-or-something-else-30c1c82cc50f\">Medium<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hopkinsmedicine.org\/health\/conditions-and-diseases\/coronavirus\/coronavirus-disease-2019-vs-the-flu\">Hopkins <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthline.com\/health\/coronavirus-symptoms#symptoms\">Healthline<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/salud\/medidas-que-recomienda-oms-para-cuidarse-del-covid-19-OC17626594\">Diario Libre<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12 March 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Public Health has habilitated telephone lines for calls regarding possible cases of Covid-19. The Ministry of Public Health said on 11 March 2020 that so far the five confirmed Covid-19 cases have all been of persons who were abroad when they caught the disease. People can call 809 686-9140, or 809 200-4091 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/03\/12\/ministry-of-public-health-covid-19-hotline\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[271,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137662"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137662"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137716,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137662\/revisions\/137716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}