On Friday, the provincial government announced that it was finishing COVID-19 tests without an appointment at evaluation centers, leaving officials in central Brockville waiting for more details.
Prime Minister Doug Ford and the Ontario Ministry of Health announced that “the Ontario government is strengthening public fitness measures.
“At the same time, in reaction to the COVID-19 surge and in preparation for the unbeliever winter months, the government is taking steps to reduce review times and prioritize those most at risk,” he added.
The measures come with “the transition to appointment screening at Ontario evaluation centers starting Tuesday, October 6, offering patients the certainty of when they can be evaluated during the bloodless winter months and allowing evaluation centers to perform advanced screening” to ensure that others are adhering to the array provincial rules takes note of the statement.
“On Sunday, October 4, 2020, evaluation centers will suspend unactioned testing so that the province’s network of laboratories can make significant progress in processing the tests and give evaluation centers time to restart, very well blank and prepare for the new appointment. model based. “
These provincial rules mean that others are only tested at an evaluation center if they have symptoms of COVID-19; has been exposed to a proven case of the virus; are citizens or staff in an environment that has an outbreak of COVID-19; or are eligible for testing as a component of a province-led testing initiative.
Earlier this week, Health Ontario officials sent a memorandum to evaluation centers stating that there would be no limits or quotas for Array. A previous media report on a limit discussed the desire to allow laboratories to catch up.
Officials at the COVID-19 evaluation center in Brockville, which operated an appointment, were waiting for more data from the Department of Health on Friday night.
“Business is the same as usual,” said Sherri Fournier Hudson, executive director of the Upper Canada Family Health Team and senior manager of the Brockville site, referring to the operation without an appointment scheduled for Saturday.
“We’ll see what happens this weekend. “
The Memorial Center has been an infrequent check-in in the area; In recent weeks, it has drawn traffic from as far away as Toronto when other people couldn’t make appointments closer to home.
Heavy traffic on the site led city police to return drivers when in full capacity, and also led to the opening of a control site in Kemptville and cell phones operated by paramedics.
On Friday night, officials from the Leeds District Health Office, Grenville, and Lanark referred questions about the provincial announcement.
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