{"id":157214,"date":"2021-04-30T06:05:10","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T10:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=157214"},"modified":"2021-04-30T10:52:35","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T14:52:35","slug":"public-health-enables-fixed-stations-for-free-covid-19-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/04\/30\/public-health-enables-fixed-stations-for-free-covid-19-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Health enables fixed stations for free Covid-19 tests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"546\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Puestos-Pruebas-Covid-Diario-Libre.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-157271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Puestos-Pruebas-Covid-Diario-Libre.jpg 546w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Puestos-Pruebas-Covid-Diario-Libre-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 546px) 100vw, 546px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Expect long lines, but for those who seek free Covid-19 antigen and PCR tests, the government has set up fixed stations. The announcement comes after the Ministry of Public health restricted PCR tests coverage by health plans to one a year, and requires a previous antigen test done in the past 72 hours. The test is open to those who have a medical prescription for the test and a Dominican government ID.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the testing stations is located at the Ministry of Public Health headquarters and the other on Tiradentes Avenue at the corner of Calle Club Rotario.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The centers are open from Monday to Saturday, from 8am to 3pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/salud\/salud-publica-habilita-puestos-fijos-para-realizacion-gratuita-de-pruebas-pcr-MN25930851\">Diario Libre<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>29 April 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expect long lines, but for those who seek free Covid-19 antigen and PCR tests, the government has set up fixed stations. The announcement comes after the Ministry of Public health restricted PCR tests coverage by health plans to one a year, and requires a previous antigen test done in the past 72 hours. The test &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/04\/30\/public-health-enables-fixed-stations-for-free-covid-19-tests\/\" 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":[290,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157214"}],"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=157214"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157272,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157214\/revisions\/157272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}