A day before the online booking for COVID-19 tests in operation in Ontario, others continued to arrive at least one evaluation center in Ottawa for non-appointment testing, and then were denied.
Last week, the province announced that it would be transferred to an online booking formula on Tuesday, and that non-appointment visits would stop on Saturday so that evaluation centers simply “reset, blank, and prepare” prior to the transfer.
Despite the statement, the Brewer Arena verification site is still assembled on Sunday.
Both patients and doctors about whether the city’s test sites would also be open on Monday, and a Ottawa doctor said other people looking for evidence “just didn’t know what to do. “
It wasn’t until Sunday night that the Ottawa CoVID-19 Test Working Group, a new organization representing fitness care voices in the region, announced that brewer Arena’s main site would be closed on Monday.
In their email, the working group stated that only the Brewer ArenaArray operated by CHEO, the children’s hospital serving east Ontario and the Coventry Road driving service, would be open Monday for other people with appointments.
Dozens of adults showed up at Brewer’s on Monday morning, unaware of the closure, and some waited at least an hour before asking the center’s employees.
“I don’t know what to do, ” said Cedric Ky, who must travel to Ghana on Friday to see his father.
Instead of taking a test, Ky turned it down.
“Now I have to figure out how I’m going to do my test, ” he said.
Josephine Ngahimo showed up at the evaluation center at 7 a. m. with camp chairs in hand to help their parents get tested because they had been in contact with those who had tested positive for COVID-19.
They waited an hour in the rain before they were told the site was closed.
“It’s just a disadvantage, [a] disappointment, but I can’t do much,” he said.
Ngahimo said he knew the province by moving to an online booking formula on Tuesday, but said he was unaware that the brewer did not make an appointment on Monday.
Christian Cantin also tried and couldn’t make it on a Monday.
He said he had already taken 4 days off after his roommate reveled in the symptoms and that any other leave would be problematic.
“I was a little disappointed that I couldn’t get tested today,” he said, “because I was looking for things to happen. “
The province also stated that by giving evaluation centers a short break, Ontario laboratories would handle the accumulation of approximately 68,000 untreated COVID-19 tests.
Health Minister Christine Elliott said at a news convention on Monday that she imagined Brewer had stayed open over the weekend because there were others who “needed to be tested immediately. “
“There is a rule, but if there is someone who has significant symptoms and wants to get tested, [then] they have made the mandatory arrangements to do so,” Elliott said.
“[It]s in the well-being and safety of all. “
Add “good” to your morning and night.
A variety of enchanted newsletters, delivered directly to your home.
Public Relations, CBC P. O. Box 500 Station A Toronto, ON Canada, M5W 1E6
Free number (Canada only): 1-866-306-4636
TTY Editor / Teletype: 1-866-220-6045
The priority of CBC/Radio-Canada is to create a site available to all Canadians, adding others with visual, hearing, motor and cognitive problems.
The encoded subtitles and video described are available for many CBC systems transmitted by CBC Gem.