New Westminster pressures Fraser Health to open a COVID-19 control site in the city, Mayor Jonathan Cote said.
A report to the Board of the Working Group on At-Risk and Vulnerable Populations indicates that the city is working heavily with Fraser Health on creating a COVID-19 control that would primarily serve New West residents. service and a vehicle component, which would require parking and standby capacity for 250 to 350 cars depending on the day.
According to the report, seven imaginable sites have been identified. The site they like, which is the former recycling depot and southwest parking component of the Canada Games Pool and Centennial Community Center, will no longer work due to logistical limitations.
“One thing is the effect on past contractual commitments on filming, which includes a lot of monetary advantages for the city,” the report says. None of the 3 sites imaginable is ideal; however, you might want to make concessions to build a verification site in the near future. »
John Stark, the city’s networking plan supervisor, said Fraser Health has opened a number of verification sites and is running for those verification sites to be fully operational.
“The staff works hard with Fraser Health. Fraser Health is very grateful for all the efforts made to open a verification site in New West,” he told the board. “Right now, as far as we understand, they on their existing verification sites, make them fully operational and then take a look at other sites. “
Cote said that others with mild bloodless symptoms are now advised to take the COVID-19 test, so it would be very helpful for the city and Fraser Health to locate a position that works in the New West. one without blood a year, said it was a major challenge to force them to travel to other cities to get tested.
“We are also a netpaintings that has one of the lowest numbers of car owners according to the home, so even access to the facilities can be more complicated than consistent with other communities that can travel longer distances,” he said. “I hope our staff can continue painting with Fraser Health and I would like us to push them a little harder to refocus and see what we can do to locate a location that can simply paint. Because, at least in its current appearance, it seems that it will be anything that requires active testing during the winter.
According to the report, the city also recommends that Fraser Health identify satellite or cellular verification sites, in all likelihood in collaboration with nonprofits, to serve the city’s street population, the elderly, and others with disabilities.
“As far as cell sites are concerned, they are not in position at this time,” Stark told the council on October 26. “We have conversations with Fraser Health. We are talking about cellular or satellite sites that would work with nonprofit organizations – the concept is that if you are a street presenter, it would be very difficult for you to access an existing verification site, either in Burnaby or Coquitlam. “
Stark said older people and others with disabilities might have difficulty accessing a verification site in some other community, which is also a priority.