Kitchener’s driving COVID-19 screening site closes for the day because so many other people are lining up for screening, according to Grand River Hospital.
“It’s been several times a day lately,” hospital spokeswoman Cheryl Evans said Wednesday.
“This happens and we can’t do much about it once our infinite parking lot is full, we have to send other people back,” Evans said. She said they have to reject other people to access the site for staff as well as others safely.
For more than nine days, she says the driving service site has performed an average of 550 tests per day. At the time of construction, the site expected to accommodate up to 350 cars per day.
Self-service service, which takes place through Grand River Hospital, is not the only one who sees a large number of other people who should not undergo the test.
The volumes of the centers at St. St. Mary’s have increased since early September, authorities said.
On Monday, the centre of Waterloo examined 104 people, the highest number since June; Tuesday, number 116, a record for the center.
When other people call to make an appointment for a test, the wait is about two days.
The check center at Cambridge Memorial Hospital has also noticed an increase in check requests, authorities said. Cambridge has a capacity of 120 checks per day, but increases this figure to 190.
Rex Mohamed, who runs the clinic without an appointment at Westmount Place in Waterloo, the site of an appointment testing center, says they get a lot of calls every day.
In the first forty-five minutes of receiving calls on Wednesday, they were completed by test day, he said.
“Callers are frustrated,” he said, “they don’t know what to do. “
He says they’ve stepped up tests at the clinic and can do about 4 tests every five minutes. They have added staff and the other people who paint at the clinic are doing everything they can to get other people tested. “he said.
The clinics, which also feature Waterloo Walk-in Clinic on University Avenue and The Boardwalk’s KW Clinic, have added thermal appliances and hand sanitist. Mohamed and his wife, Meera, have distributed 50,000 loose masks to others who want them. and even offer trips to other people who don’t already have a vehicle and want to get tested.
He said what will happen in the long term is unclear, but “from what I see right now, practically, we are in a position to be prepared”, as when other people prepare for a shock.
“It happens. I took out everything I could,” he said.
Other parts of the province are also experiencing increased demand for evidence. In London on Tuesday, other people were rejected at the city’s two assessment centres because many other people wanted to be examined. I don’t want to be tested they’re obstructing the formula there.
Also Tuesday, Health Minister Christine Elliott said the province had won reports of “significant queues in many parts of Ontario. “
Elliott said they expected to see a building on call when the youth returned to school, but “maybe not right now. “
The province now has tactics to solve this problem, he said.
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