Testing for COVID-19 continues in Windsor-Essex.
Since a testing centre opened up at the Ouellette Campus of Windsor Regional Hospital on the 16th, over 600 people have been seen with over 300 tests being done.
Speaking on The Morning Drive, CEO David Musyj says there is a delay in testing with some results taking up to seven days, so they have to treat every case as if it’s positive.
“Our staff take the appropriate precautions with the PPE [personal protective equipment] and we treat them as positive until we get the negative result or until we get the result period, then we deal with it.”
Musyj says the good news is that there is a lab in London opening today.
“We’ll be sending all our tests, all our swabs to London today and we should be getting the results back within 24 hours so that’s a positive thing," he says. Reminding people that this is not an airborne virus.
“ [It's] Particle, that’s why the six feet," says Musyj, "If it was airborne this would be a lot different situation we’d be dealing with internationally. So it’s just getting the information and trying to weed your way through it and relying upon reliable sources.”
Windsor has two positive cases of COVID-19 and both the City of Windsor and County of Essex have declared a state of emergency.