{"id":138105,"date":"2020-03-23T13:04:50","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T13:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ny1.dr1.com.do\/wordpress\/?p=138105"},"modified":"2020-03-23T15:10:28","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T15:10:28","slug":"how-to-get-tested-for-the-coronavirus-government-and-private-labs-in-the-dominican-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/03\/23\/how-to-get-tested-for-the-coronavirus-government-and-private-labs-in-the-dominican-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"How to get tested for the coronavirus: government and private labs in the Dominican Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Linea-de-Covid19-Ministerio-de-Salud-Publica-e1584976125879.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-138131\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Public Health is advising those who suspect they have coronavirus to not call 911 for emergency services. Instead, people are being told to call *462 or (809 687-7347).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Public Health has a hotline for people to call in case the key symptoms are fever, dry cough and difficulty to breathe. The government will not carry out tests to persons that do not have these symptoms. The tests are free of cost. This is 809 686-9140, or 809 200-4091 for toll free calls from provinces from 8 am to 8 pm. There is also a WhatsApp telephone at 829 542-7009. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amadita (https:\/\/amadita.com\/) and Referencia (https:\/\/labreferencia.com\/) labs are carrying out the test. The test needs to be prescribed by a pulmonologist, internist, infectologist or epidemiologist. After contacting the lab, a team of specialists will be sent to you to take the test at your domicile. Tests are not being carried out to persons who show up at the lab branches, nor persons that do not have coronavirus symptoms. The tests are costing RD$4,300. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For updated information on the virus, see <a href=\"http:\/\/coronavirusrd.gob.do\/\">Coronavirus RD<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>23 March 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Public Health is advising those who suspect they have coronavirus to not call 911 for emergency services. Instead, people are being told to call *462 or (809 687-7347). The Ministry of Public Health has a hotline for people to call in case the key symptoms are fever, dry cough and difficulty to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/03\/23\/how-to-get-tested-for-the-coronavirus-government-and-private-labs-in-the-dominican-republic\/\" 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\/138105"}],"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=138105"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138132,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138105\/revisions\/138132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}