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Ontario no longer testing asymptomatic individuals effective immediately | News
Ontario assessment centres will no longer be testing asymptomatic individuals who have not had contact with a COVID-19 case, or outbreaks.
dailyhive.com
"Ontario assessment centres will no longer be testing asymptomatic individuals who have not had contact with COVID-19 cases, or outbreaks, and are not in high-risk workplaces.
On Thursday, Dr. Barbara Yaffe, Ontario’s deputy chief medical officer of health, said that the average person out there who is not exposed to a case, is not part of an outbreak, and has no symptoms “should not be getting testing.”
She said “it adds no value. In fact, what we found when there’s very little COVID in that group, is it produces false positives which complicates things even more which causes a lot of concern.”
Its just a start but healthy people should have never been tested.
