After court cases about waiting for a COVID-19 check in Ottawa, fitness officials said the control center could open this month.
Currently, the general public can visit one of the 3 verification sites, adding Brewer Park Arena. People were complaining that they had to wait in line for hours to take this check.
“We are doing what we can and will continue to try to do more in those waiting times,” said Dr. Alan Forster, vice president of innovation and quality at Ottawa Hospital.
He said plans are being developed for a new vehicle service center and service center.
“People are essentially going to drive, they’re going to take a check and then they’re going to leave.”
He told CBC Radio on Cbc Morning on Wednesday that that site is “pretty close” to its launch. No precise location was found, but said they were looking for a giant parking lot on a city component without a control site.
This format can be useful when temperatures drop this winter, but the amount of tests needed could increase.
The hope is to establish the first of these new assessment centers before the school year begins.
In addition to having more sites, fitness officers continue to work to increase staff and existing sites.
“We’re going to want more verification sites, but also more hours of operation with our existing verification sites,” Forster said.
Since the beginning of the year, fitness officials in the city have everything from lack of probation to the ability to pass up to 3,000 tests per day, Forster said.
He said the plan more than doubling that capacity until the end of the fall.
Another way fitness officials are simplifying the testing procedure is to eliminate a medical evaluation for those who don’t want it.
Everyone who gets tested has no symptoms or doesn’t want the test, he said, but they just need the test.
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