{"id":137857,"date":"2020-12-07T17:42:08","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T08:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=137857&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2020-12-07T17:42:08","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T08:42:08","slug":"fifty-percent-off-pcr-testing-for-elderly-in-fukuoka-city","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/fifty-percent-off-pcr-testing-for-elderly-in-fukuoka-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifty Percent Off PCR Testing For Elderly In Fukuoka City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fukuoka City plans to subsidize the cost of PCR tests for residents of 65 years old and over by half. Budgets for the program and other new coronavirus-related actions (total: \u00a5528 million) will be discussed at the city\u2019s assembly from Dec. 10. The city, which plans to develop a new PCR test center for COCOA app users in the Tenjin area, might also open another center if the number of test-takers increases.<\/span><b> Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/mainichi.jp\/articles\/20201204\/ddl\/k40\/010\/256000c\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mainichi<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/ <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/kbc.co.jp\/news\/article.php?id=5968558&amp;ymd=2020-12-04\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">KBC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-137858\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/tenjin-pcr-center.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/tenjin-pcr-center.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/tenjin-pcr-center.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/tenjin-pcr-center.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/tenjin-pcr-center.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Disclaimer<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area news for those who cannot read Japanese. These are mostly summaries of publicly posted news from the Japanese media. Errors might occur during translation, those are ours. Images are sourced separately and are for illustrative purposes only. Use<\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/contact\/\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this form<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to send feedback. Please share links to this page, it helps us.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More Kyushu news on<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FukuokaNow\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Twitter<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/fukuokanews\/\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instagram<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fukuokanow\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Facebook<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fukuoka City plans to subsidize the cost of PCR tests for residents of 65 years old and over by half. Budgets for the program and other new coronavirus-related actions (total: \u00a5528 million) will be discussed at the city\u2019s assembly from Dec. 10&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":137858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-137857","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-fukuoka-city","news-category-general","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/137857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}