The first online user on Brandon’s coronavirus verification site there at 6:30 a.m. on Tuesday.
At 8 a.m., at least 40 cars had joined the line, all in an effort to avoid the big queues noticed the day before.
Opened at 8:45 a.m.
People queuing Monday at The Brandon Network Driving Control at Town Center Parkade waited for hours.
For those who wonder, some other verification site will arrive at the Keystone Center, as well as a 7-day, extended-hour operation.
The province says the call to this has only increased in the last two days, traditionally we have noticed an increase in post-weekend testing.
– Skylar Peters (@CJOBSkylar) 10 August 2020
A case organization in Brandon in recent days has led others to get tested in the city of Manitoba.
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Dr. Brent Roussin, the province’s public fitness officer, said Monday that there are now more than 60 cases in a group in Brandon and 196 cases active in the province, a record.
A check-in moment in Brandon will open Wednesday on the grounds of the Keystone Center with the same opening hours downtown, Prairie Mountain Health said.
“Customers can access the site they prefer to scale on (Town Center or Keystone Center), but they can be redirected to the other site to help balance queues and reduce wait times,” PMH said in a statement.
A woman online on Tuesday morning told Global News that accumulation in cases is inevitable.
“A lot of other people have let their guard down and that’s why we have some cases,” he said. “It’s not something we can’t control.”
– with by Abigail Turner