Swan River is set to get a COVID-19 testing site.
Prairie Mountain Health will open the site at the Manitoba Public Insurance service centre at 125, 4th Avenue North and it will open tomorrow on May 1. The hours of operation will be from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., seven days a week.
Prior to the site opening, tests were being done inside the emergency department at the hospital.
"We've been monitoring our testing volumes at all sites and we want to have a site one hour within our communities and Swan River is about two hours from Dauphin," said Glenda Short, Vice President of Community Programs for Prairie Mountain Health. "The right decision was to open a new testing site in Swan River."
Sites in the PMH now include one in Brandon, Dauphin, and Swan River. Short says more testing sites may open in the future, but there are no plans at this time.
Short also adds that testing is going well within PMH with just 15 lab-confirmed cases.
"They've all been running as drive-thru and everything has been going excellent," continued Short. "It's been taking about 10 minutes from the time people drive up to the time they can leave and then isolate for two weeks."
The public is reminded that you must contact Health Links in order to be screened and receive notice of an appointment. The number for Health Links-Info Sante is 1-888-315-9257.
The province has now expanded testing to any Manitoban with symptoms of COVID-19 --- even just mild --- which include a cough, runny nose, sore throat, and or fever.
You can access the online screening tool and more information here.
