Under a slate grey sky, a line of cars began to form in the morning long before the COVID-19 control site opened.
It has a familiar scene as instances accumulate and the call for checks over several days exceeds the capacity of London’s two public control centres.
The other thing here is that those coronavirus tests do take place at carling or Oakridge evaluation centers.
This scene takes place in an outdoor recreation center, necessarily a group of sports fields on Hamilton Road in Dorchester, just outside London.
Welcome to the COVID-19 global pop-up test.
To help ease some of the tension at London checkpoints, the Middlesex-London Paramedic Service has intervened to provide assistance, its operating vehicle, an ambulance of the proportions of Winnebago, as a cell control centre that will stop in a handful of communities. middlesex County, in the coming days.
While additional testing capability is a welcome help, it is transparent that contextual test sites can make a small hole in the developing call for COVID-19 testing in the London area.
Dorchester’s pop-up opened at 11 a. m. Wednesday, but the car line began to form 3 hours earlier. The site temporarily reached its capacity of about one hundred tests. In the early afternoon, the newcomers had to be rejected.
At approximately 2 p. m. , CBC News spoke to a Mother from London who drove 20 minutes to Dorchester and had already been in line for more than 4 hours. She needed to test her six-year-old son so that he could return She is one of the many parents who arrived for her children to be examined.
“We heard that everything in London was already at full capacity,” he said. “We heard it was open and it was our only option today. “
Anyone can be tested at emerging sites, no matter where they live, as long as they meet existing provincial detection guidelines.
To meet these criteria, you must:
Paramedics have scheduled a number of other contextual testing sites in parts of Middlesex country this week.
A dates and times is here:
Dates and places to come for our cellular network swab sites: @CountyMiddlesex @ThamesCentre @lucancbj @StrathCaradoc pic. twitter. com/O9JYpDIhLT
Journalist
Andrew Lupton is a British Columbia-born journalist, father of two, and a resident of north London with a love of politics, photography and baseball.
To inspire thoughtful and respectful conversations, the call and first call will appear with submission to CBC/Radio-Canada online communities (except in children’s and youth communities). Pseudonyms will no longer be allowed.
By submitting a comment, you agree that CBC has the right to reproduce and post this comment in whole or in part, in the manner selected through CBC. Please support CBC’s perspectives expressed in the comments. Comments on this story are moderated according to our submission guidelines. Comments are welcome when they are open. We reserve the right to close comments at any time.
Public Relations, CBC Postal Box 500 Station to Toronto, ON Canada, M5W 1E6
Free number (Canada only): 1-866-306-4636
TTY Editor / Teletype: 1-866-220-6045
The priority of CBC/Radio-Canada is to create a site available to all Canadians, adding others with visual, hearing, motor and cognitive problems.
The encoded subtitles and video described are available for many CBC systems transmitted by CBC Gem.