​If you have symptoms of COVID-19, the most common of which are fever, cough, fatigue, loss of smell/taste, sore throat, headache, or muscle pain, you can call DSP, a testing center from a hospital (such testing centers open so far only in Bucharest) or a family doctor.

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16 test centers have been opened in Bucharest hospitals

If you live in Bucharest, you can call the Public Health Office and wait for a team to check you at home with a PCR test if you meet the criteria in the case definition (specific symptoms of COVID-19), or you can register at DSP, and then you can go and take the test at one of the test centers opened at the capital’s hospitals.

16 testing centers have been opened in hospitals in Bucharest and Ilfov:

  • Hospital Clinic CF 2 – schedule Monday – Sunday 08:00 – 20:00
  • Grigore Alexandrescu Children’s Clinical Emergency Medical Hospital – schedule Monday – Sunday 08:00 – 20:00
  • Floreasca Emergency Clinical Hospital – schedule Monday – Sunday 08:00 – 20:00
  • Sfânta Maria Clinical Hospital – schedule Monday – Sunday 08:00 – 20:00
  • Matej Balsh National Institute of Infectious Diseases – schedule Monday – Sunday 08:00 – 20:00
  • Ilfov County Clinical Hospital – schedule Monday – Friday 8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
  • Saint Panteleimon Emergency Medical Hospital – schedule Monday – Sunday 08:00 – 20:00
  • St. Stephen’s Pneumophytosis Hospital – schedule Monday – Sunday 08:00 – 20:00
  • Viktor Babesh Clinical Hospital for Infectious and Tropical Diseases – schedule Monday – Sunday 08:00 – 20:00
  • Colțea Clinical Hospital – schedule Monday – Sunday 08:00 – 20:00
  • Clinical Psychiatric Hospital named after Alexander Obrezhi – working hours are from Monday to Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
  • Bucharest University Emergency Hospital – schedule Monday – Sunday 10:00 – 18:00
  • Institute of Logopedic and Functional Surgery Dr. Hociota – Hours Monday – Friday 7:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
  • National Institute of Public Health – schedule Monday – Sunday 8:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
  • Institute of pneumophthisiatry named after Marius Nasta – schedule Monday – Friday 8:00 – 18:00, Saturday – Sunday 8:00 – 15:00
  • Bugtya Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital – schedule Monday – Friday – 8:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Testing outside the city, free of charge through the DSP or at family doctors

If you do not live in Bucharest, the Ministry of Health has not announced the opening of PCR testing centers in the country’s hospitals.

Instead, testing can be done free of charge through DSP (by calling the contact numbers on your local DSP website) or from your GP.

GPs only do rapid antigen tests in their offices, but testing is not available at all GPs.

The list of family doctors, who can do express antigen testing, by district, is available on the website of the Ministry of Health.

See a COMPLETE LIST of family doctors available for testing, by county, here.

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