The messaging wasn’t clear to Christine McMullan, 72, of Orleans, Ont., a suburb of Ottawa, who called a local pharmacy to book a test.
“Without assurances that they are negative and can ‘go back to normal’ people are left hanging,” she wrote. Other provinces, including British Columbia, Manitoba, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, do not generally provide any testing to those without symptoms. In an effort to ease the backlog, health officials have discouraged asymptomatic people from accessing testing and have placed restrictions on pharmacies.
Ontario is facing a surge in cases of COVID-19, recording 409 new cases on Friday, and the same number on Thursday., mostly clustered in and around Toronto and Ottawa, have signed up in an initial rollout. Previously, anyone who wanted a COVID-19 test could go to one of the province’s 151 assessment centres.
Bates says it will be up to pharmacy staff whether to test someone who shows up without an appointment.
Total incompetence had months to prepare and gather adequate supplies and testing methods Epic fail by federal and provincial governments Loss of lives is on both PM and Ford sham on them
That's ppl playing the Covid Workplace Policy.
Perks of having crazy fordnation as the Premier 😠
CTVToronto
Dumb idea prolonging the pandemic
its about time
Scamdemic!
Not good news for people suffering hypochondria ...
Just announced in Florida, covid restrictions have been lifted..opening back up 100%. What is Alberta’s problem and Canada’s problem, we are going backwards. Florida has much larger population. Call your government officials
Great. We’re gonna start missing asymptomatic cases.
Good!! 👍
This is total BS. EVERYONE should be tested, and regularly.
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