Carrie Friesen was only worried about running out of paints if she got the COVID-19, and she’s afraid she’d waste hours if she had to get tested again.
“I can’t get tested. Maybe it’s loose proof, but who’s going to pay my bills?”
Losing your homework, and your salary, to get tested is a dilemma faced by many other young people working in the retail and hotel sectors, Friesen said, and it will be more complicated as flu symptoms and bloodless flu symptoms are common.
Friesen, 21, has already done five COVID-19 checks, and the tricks he has had to visit a check illustrate how difficult the pandemic is for low-income people.
Friesen now has two part-time retail jobs. She was fired as a disability worker after her third COVID-19 check because she still had to take some time off, she said.
She can’t afford her car since she got fired, so she now depends on the bus, but Winnipeg Transit is telling others with symptoms not to take the bus.
When he re-developed symptoms, taxi companies also refused to review the site.
“Getting there is impossible, ” he said.
Eventually, his mother, Jaime Bernadin, who lives in Portage los Angeles Prairie, agreed to drive to Winnipeg. A single mother who has two jobs for her other two children, Bernardin took a day off to send Friesen to a verification site in Los Angeles on Friday. .
The effects were received the following Monday, at which point Friesen’s employer had already arranged an embankment for him and lost several days of pay.
“It’s very difficult to get tested, because no one supports us,” he said. “It’s frustrating. “
The call has increased with instances in Winnipeg in recent weeks.
After hours of waiting and rows of cars stretching for several blocks near Winnipeg’s driving control site, Dr. Brent Roussin, the province’s leading public conditioning officer, said Thursday that the province would “significantly increase capacity. “
Manitoba Health Minister Cameron Friesen said Dynacare will soon supply a number of cell testing sites in Brandon, Dauphin, Portage los Angeles Prairie and Winkler. The first cell site featured in Winnipeg this week.
The first clinic conducted 75 tests on opening day, Friesen said, only five less than its estimated capacity.
This cell site is also tied to the desk in a West End parking lot right now, which doesn’t help many other people like Jessica Stevens, who would take the bus.
When Stevens’ circle of 3 relatives contracted COVID-19 symptoms in March, they felt stuck: they say they have public transportation and Health Links told them to wait for their symptoms at home rather than spread to others on the bus.
The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority says it offers loose trips to detection sites in a special taxi installed with protective shields. Fewer than 10 other people use it every day and it is organized through the fitness links.
“Transportation comes in exclusive cases where a person can’t actually go alone for the test,” a spokesman wrote to CBC News, mentioning the lack of money, car or car donor as imaginable reasons.
Stevens burned his on days in poor health in the spring. Now, with bloodless and flu-free seasons on the way and without a foolproof way to rule out COVID-19 without proof, she fears that the desire to move to a screening site or isolate herself will accentuate . . . for her, her boyfriend and her preschool. .
“We definitely paint check in pay check – our expenses and everything is budgeted – and now with COVIDArray . . . oh my God, ” said Stevens, who paints part-time and struggles to find another.
Difficulty detection sites, limited test hours, and average 56-hour delays in downloading a result mean that unsafe personnel face greater monetary pressures before the fall, according to experts and advocates.
Manitoba’s hourly minimum wage rose 25 cents Thursday to $11. 90, is Canada’s third lowest wage, and many of those jobs are done at home, winnipeg’s Social Planning Council executive director said.
“Many have real problems,” Kate Kehler said. These other people have been most affected by COVID because the provincial government’s technique is to expect other people to have savings, which is simply not imaginable with a minimum wage. “Worker.
The federal government has just announced a new formula that will provide two weeks of emergency payment to those who have not paid their employer’s ill health drop.
But Kehler suggests that, especially for low-wage staff who have not been in paints constantly lately, with colds and flu circulating, will face a high-threat proposition: to think that it is not COVID-19 and resists paintings, or the threat of entering. more debt.
“Until we have a formula in which supplies paid in poor health allow everyone, other people will come to the front and move on to work,” he said.
“Not all employers are as involved with the smart as others and then they’ll say, ‘I don’t care if you have a sore throat, if you go painting or if you don’t have a job. ‘
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