The University of Ottawa is opening a COVID-19 assessment center on campus for students, universities and the first of its kind at an Ontario university, according to administrators.
The center will be monitored in collaboration with Ottawa Hospital (OH) and Ottawa Public Health and will be supervised by a hospital doctor.
The university expects it to open in early September, just in time for academics to return for the fall semester. The university said it hopes to return to receiving some 5,000 academics whose course requires face-to-face instruction, as well as two-thirds of its researchers and a small number of professors and other staff.
Dr. Hugues Loemba, a virologist and associate professor in the university’s Department of Medicine, applauded on campus.
“This will locate new cases of COVID-19 that can simply spread the disease,” he said. “Specifically for those who have no symptoms than Array .. and spread the disease in the university community.”
Loemba believes that everyone should be checked before returning to campus and warns that negative control does not necessarily mean that a user is lost from COVID-19.
“You may have been tested at a time when the virus isn’t enough in your body,” he said. “Because it takes a few days to be exposed to this virus.”
Loemba said it would be appropriate for the control effects to be returned in a timely manner within 24 to 48 hours.
U O student Nicole Branchaud said she would check the campus site if she thought she had COVID-19.
“It’s smart that it’s available to students,” he says.
The evaluation center will be in Block D on two hundred Lees Avenue. Anyone who wants an on-site exam must make an appointment. The university said the tests would be limited to another 50 people in the first few weeks.
In Gatineau, the University of Quebec in Ottawa will have a weekly COVID-19 detection center for students.
UQO President Murielle Laberge said the site’s primary goal is to prevent the spread of the disease in asymptomatic young people.
Anyone wishing to take an exam on the UQO’s online page will also need to make an appointment.
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