The Barrie COVID-19 Assessment Centre will now be closed on weekends.
The centre, located at 490 Huronia Road, will now be open Monday to Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. According to Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre (RVH), residents should only attend the assessment centre if they have COVID-19 symptoms.
“RVH continues to provide COVID-19 testing to anyone who wants it at our drive-through centre located at the health centre’s Atrium entrance,” said Liz Ferguson, vice president of patient programs, flow and Chief Nursing Executive. “For the past couple of weeks, the team swabbed more than 200 people a day. The number of people wanting a test is decreasing.”
For residents who don’t have symptoms but want to be tested, they are advised to attend the Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre “Clinic C” drive-through at 201 Georgian Dr. – Atrium entrance.
The drive-through testing site is open Monday to Friday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., and will now be open Saturday and Sunday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Appointments can be made by calling 705-728-9090 ext. 49910 during clinic hours. If you do not have an appointment, attendees are asked instead to proceed to parking spots marked A or B.
COVID-19 symptoms include difficulty breathing, fever, cough, muscle aches, fatigue, headache, sore throat and runny nose.
Additional symptoms may include hoarse voice, difficulty swallowing, loss of sense of smell or taste, diarrhea or nausea/vomiting or conjunctivitis.
For seniors, symptoms may also include chills, delirium with no other obvious reason, falls, acute functional decline, increased heart rate and decreased blood pressure.
