On Friday, many other people covered the the same in their cars for COVID-19 control at a new driving control center in the Calypso Water Park parking lot near Limoges, Ontario, some of whom are frustrated by long waits in the nation’s capital.
The site, opened a day earlier through the Eastern Ontario Health Office (OSOB) in partnership with paramedics in Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry and Prescott and Russell counties, is intended to ease tension at other detection centers in the area, who have noticed the need for superior capacity after the categories resume.
“We had a diversity this morning and manufactured nearly 1,000 cars, which I expected,” said Dr. Paul Roumeliotis, BSEO Medical Health Officer.
“We know there’s been a request for evidence. “
The site is the seventh to open at the BSEO and is the latest progression in an ongoing effort to expand testing in the region and will be open from 9 a. m. 5 p. m. to anyone older than one who also meets the new provincial test guidelines.
The Ontario government announced Thursday that it would check only symptomatic and high-risk equipment to ease tension at publicly funded control sites and eliminate a huge accumulation of samples. People without symptoms may be checked in some pharmacies starting Friday.
Although lately touted as a transitority, Array Roumeliotis said Calypso’s tents and ambulances will be replaced in the coming weeks with heated trailers, as it takes over the only existing transportation service at the fitness office in Casselman, Ontario.
“Lately we’ve been ordering special tents, special trailers, heaters and that kind of thing [so] we can work in the winter and bloodless months,” Roumeliotis said.
Roumeliotis said the water park, which did not open for the 2020 season due to provincial restrictions, is ideal for a regional review due to its location right next to Highway 417, the huge capacity of its parking lot and the 3. 5 km long. road leading to it means that long lines of cars will not be harmful.
The Calypso check is proving popular with Ottawa residents, who have faced long queues and fast online appointments on the city’s top 4 checks in recent weeks.
“It’s to get anywhere [in Ottawa], so we’ve come all this way,” said Julia Climie, who drove about forty-five minutes from Barrhaven to take a check for her daughter.
Climie said the stories of other people queuing at Ottawa sites in the early hours of the morning show the desperate desire for more control sites.
John Frechette, who also lives in Barrhaven, took his son for the test because he had three other coVID-19 symptoms.
Although he was in line for more than two hours while talking to Radio-Canada, Fréchette said he was comfortable waiting in his vehicle.
“It’s more convenient to wait in your car than to stand up and have the Array. I can entertain them in the car,” Fréchette said.
“You’d think the City of Ottawa would open more driver service centers since there are a million more people living in this city.
Ottawa’s only driving control center is located in the Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton Park parking lot on Coventry Road.
The city has promised to open a new COVID-19 control at a network center in Orleans in October and another in the city center.
With files through Radio-Canada’s Jean-Fran’ois Poudrier
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