WATCH LIVE: Premier Doug Ford speaks about Ontario's updated testing strategy
Last week, the province announced it would start allowing coronavirus tests for anyone who feared they may have been exposed to an infected person or anyone who thought they may be infected but were not showing symptoms.
Next week, they will be joined by “pop-up” testing centres in neighbourhoods hard hit by the virus. In Windsor-Essex, the local public health unit dispatched paramedics to take samples in common places such as parking lots.Going forward, the province plans to expand testing to a variety of different workplaces and settings, in what officials call the “monitoring and screening” stage of Ontario’s COVID-19 response.
While there has been talk across Canada of conducting widespread serology screening, to see how many people have the antibodies in their blood to indicate they have recovered from the virus and possess immunity, there remains no detailed plan on when such a screening will begin.
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