IDF launches phone hotline for soldiers with COVID-19 symptoms

26 March 2020, 2:49 pm

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The Israel Defense Forces has opened its own hotline for soldiers displaying symptoms of the coronavirus as part of its effort to relieve pressure on the civilian healthcare system.

Soldiers with symptoms of the disease — fever, cough, shortness of breath — can call the hotline by dialing *6900 any time of day in order to request a test and to get answers to questions about the virus, the military says.

An IDF Medical Corps team would then visit the soldier, taking a sample and get it tested in the IDF’s laboratory. If the test is positive for the virus, the soldier would be sent to an IDF coronavirus treatment facility, the military says.

— Judah Ari Gross