A new COVID-19 center opened in Edmonton on Wednesday morning.
The Central Assessment Center is located in Ward A of the Edmonton Exhibition Center. Alberta Health Services has reported that the center is Edmonton’s largest and is able to take about 5,000 samples a day.
The new location will be held for coronavirus tests by appointment only, hikes for symptomatic and asymptomatic Alberta residents can be booked at the Exhibition Center.
AHS said it opened the new site to meet the test call.
AHS stated that it had expanded several of its evaluation centres, as well as contract study groups and provincial laboratories.
As of August 27, AHS reported that it had 683 trained in the contract studies team, which is made up of full-time, part-time, reassigned and informal employees.
AHS stated that the average time for other symptomatic people to obtain control effects is 24 to 48 hours, while for other asymptomatic people, the effects return five to seven days after the sample, AHS said on a Wednesday.
“These delays may vary,” AHS said. Again, we are running new processes and means to shorten those times. “
The province’s medical director of health, dr. Deena Hinshaw, addressed the delay in updating her on COVID-19 on Wednesday afternoon.
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“The delay between when a pattern is taken and when a patient is notified is something we seek to reduce so that others get their verification effects faster,” he said.
It recalled that members had been added to all stages of the test procedure, from samplers and procedure data, to those who then made sure that others got their results and those looking for contacts.
“Right now, there is a delay and this delay is a concern. And again, there are many paintings to diminish that as temporarily as you can imagine in all those other parts,” Hinshaw said.
“Unfortunately, I don’t have a company deadline to reduce that time. But many steps are being taken to reduce it as temporarily as possible. “
News of the additional control came here on Tuesday afternoon, when Alberta recorded 619 new instances of COVID-19 in the last 4 days. On Tuesday, Hinshaw also reported that five other people had died of COVID-19 in the last 4 days. A total of 247 Alberta residents died from COVID-19.
The total number of active instances of COVID-19 1692 on Tuesday. This is the highest number of active instances the province has noticed since May 9, Hinshaw said.
In the Edmonton area, there were 648 COVID-19 assets on Tuesday afternoon.
The entire city of Edmonton was re-listed on the province’s “watch list” on Tuesday afternoon. Regions with at least 10 active instances and a rate of more than 50 active instances consisting of 100,000 inhabitants are transferred to the watch category.
In addition, 8 Edmonton neighborhoods were alert Tuesday afternoon:
There are two other verification sites in the Edmonton area, in addition to the South Assessment Center, which is open seven days a week for others with appointments and appointments. The other location is the East Assessment Center in Sherwood Park, a driving service open five days a week.
AHS said the two existing sites can contain more than 3,000 samples per day.
The check will tell you if you had COVID-19 at the time your swab was taken, possibly not tell you if you have ever had the disease.
The Edmonton Exhibition Centre was used as a daytime shelter for several months at the height of the pandemic and closed on July 31.
To schedule an appointment for a coronavirus test, the Alberta Health Service website.