Queensway Carleton opens city’s 1st drive-thru COVID-19 testing centre|Ottawa Citizen

COVID-19 testers at a drive-thru screening terminal at the Queensway-Carleton Hospital. Queensway-Carleton Hospital handout In a declaration, the medical center pointed out the drive-thru at the front entry of its emergency team “has actually been set up to reduce stand by times for individuals that have been actually directed through>>>

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Drive-thru coronavirus test centres could help reduce spread in Canada: expert | Globalnews.ca

Drive-thru clinics testing people for COVID-19 in South Korea could serve as a model for Canada, where the spread of the virus is comparatively limited but increasing to the point that such early interventions could be considered, an epidemiologist says. Stephen Hoption Cann of the University of British Columbia’s school>>>

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Ottawa’s Queensway-Carleton Hospital opened a Drive-Thru testing lane for COVID-19 | CTV News

OTTAWA — Patients are being tested for novel coronavirus while sitting in their cars at the Queensway-Carleton Hospital. The west-end hospital opened a drive-thru line outside the emergency department on Thursday evening to test for COVID-19. The drive-thru testing is for patients who had been directed by Ottawa Public Health>>>

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