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How to apply for free Covid-19 tests in Miami

If you want to request the totally free Covid-19 tests, you just have to go to the Covidtest.gov website or call (800) 232-0233 according to the information published through the Instagram account of the Miami-Dade County Mayor, Danielle Levine Cava. Now it will not be necessary to attend the testing centers in the city, since you will […]

Por Allan Brito
How to apply for free Covid-19 tests in Miami
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If you want to request the totally free Covid-19 tests, you just have to go to the Covidtest.gov website or call (800) 232-0233 according to the information published through the Instagram account of the Miami-Dade County Mayor, Danielle Levine Cava.

Now it will not be necessary to attend the testing centers in the city, since you will be able to receive your Covid-19 tests and thus know if you are infected. The proofs will be received at the end of January, according to the Sun Sentinel. 

Since last Wednesday the official website accepts the applications, while the Casablanca tries to address the shortage of the tests at the national level, however the supplies of these are limited to only four tests per house.

These home tests will have no cost to applicants and even include the shipping fee, as announced by the White House.

Similarly, President Joe Biden announced that he would acquire 500 million tests to distribute to households and launch the program, as well as later announcing that the order would be doubled to 1 billion tests.

Just as the White House revealed that “proofs will generally ship within 7 to 12 days of ordering” by using the US Postal Service, which takes approximately 1 to 3 days to ship for US packages. first-class users in the continental United States.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggest that home tests only be carried out when any member of the household has symptoms of Covid-19 such as fever, muscle aches, and shortness of breath, among others.

“Certainly if you’re going to get together with family, if you’re going to a gathering where people are immunocompromised or where they’re elderly or where there are people who might not be vaccinated or poorly protected from a vaccine, that could be an opportunity. you want to get tested,” said CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky.

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