{"id":11623,"date":"2020-05-22T18:02:52","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T18:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=11623"},"modified":"2020-05-22T18:17:58","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T18:17:58","slug":"mobile-testing-for-covid-19-coming-to-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=11623","title":{"rendered":"Mobile testing for COVID-19 coming to town"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"980\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Covid-19-photo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11626\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Covid-19-photo.jpg 980w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Covid-19-photo-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Covid-19-photo-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><figcaption>The Los Fresnos Fire Station\/EMS will host COVID-19 mobile testing on May 26 and 27. Photo: Tony Vindell \/ LFN<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>By TONY VINDELL<br><\/strong>LFN<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the number of positive coronavirus cases continues to rise in the Rio Grande Valley, including here in Los Fresnos, a mobile test collection will be held next week in town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The testing will be conducted from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Tuesday, May 26, and Wednesday, May 27 in front of the Los Fresnos Fire Department building at 100 Rodeo Dr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cameron County Judge Eddie Trevino Jr. made the announcement as part of a countywide initiative that began on Thursday, May 11 in La Feria and will end May 31 in La Feria at the commissioner Precinct 4 Warehouse at 26623 White Ranch Rd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Health workers will screen people who have some of the symptoms of the virus such as fever and\/or coughs, fatigue, body aches, shortness of breath, sore throat, headaches, nausea, nasal congestion and loss of taste and\/or smell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The testing is free but anyone interested in getting checked must register online by going to txdcovidtest.org or by calling 512-883-2400.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The countywide test collections are being done at a time when cities all over the country, including the Rio Grande Valley, started opening some sectors of the economy while the number of positive cases continues to rise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here in Los Fresnos, 14 positive cases were recorded as of early last week. Countywide, a total of 527 cases and 23 deaths were on record during the same period. Port Isabel had three cases while Brownsville had 186 cases.<br>The figures were provided on Tuesday, May 12, by the Cameron County Health Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By TONY VINDELLLFN As the number of positive coronavirus cases continues to rise in the Rio Grande Valley, including here in Los Fresnos, a mobile test collection will be held next week in town. The testing will be conducted from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Tuesday, May 26, and Wednesday, May 27 in front [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[68,67],"class_list":["post-11623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","tag-feature","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11623"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11648,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11623\/revisions\/11648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}