No question either of inviting “at largePeople, symptomatic or not, come to an assessment and screening clinic without an appointment.
“You can take asymptomatic people, but there has to be a connection [avec des cas confirmés]. If we did random tests in the community, 99.9% would come back negative because the community transmission of the virus is weak, explains the director of public health of the Capitale-Nationale.
“I prefer to screen the environments in which I see transmission, wait for a case and intervene intensively around the case,” he said.
In the Capitale-Nationale, we know that the R0 (the average number of people that a contagious person can infect) is below 1, but it is not known with exactitude. “I would love it if the National Institute of Public Health told me, but all he can tell me is that I am well below 1, but that I am not close to 0 . […] But I am comfortably below the 1, like all the other regions outside the crown of Montreal, “says Dr Goods.
If we keep an R0 below 1, the curve will remain flat, “and we will never exceed our capacity to treat people,” he recalls.
Soon a mobile screening unit in Lévis
In Chaudière-Appalaches, the latest report shows three new confirmed cases of COVID-19, bringing the number of cases recorded so far in this region to 491. Seven people are currently hospitalized (+1), three of whom are in intensive care (+1).
Since the start of the pandemic, eight residents of the region have died from the virus. The number of people recovered has risen to 425, up five from Tuesday.
A mobile walk-in screening clinic will run on June 2 in the Lévis area, the sector most affected by COVID-19 in the Chaudière-Appalaches region, announced the CISSS on Wednesday. The mobile unit pilot project will then be extended (over the next few months) to other Chaudière-Appalaches territories.
With a capacity of 100 tests per day, the mobile clinic will be responsible for screening symptomatic and asymptomatic people within the population, explains the CISSS of Chaudière-Appalaches in a press release.
“Thanks to the invaluable collaboration of network stakeholders and the City of Lévis, we will be able to offer local service. Detecting and testing the population is one of the criteria that will allow us to carry out deconfinement successfully, ”underlines the director of public health of the CISSS of Chaudière-Appalaches, the Dre Liliana Romero.
Several districts of Lévis will be crossed from Monday to Friday between 9:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. The first clinic will take place at 10 a.m. on June 2 at the Patro de Lévis, located at 6150, rue Saint-Georges. For the locations and times of the mobile screening clinic: www.cisssca.com/clinique-depistage.
The Chaudière-Appalaches CISSS specifies that assessment and screening clinics by appointment continue in the four clinics in the area (Center Paul Gilbert, CLSC and CHSLD de Beauceville, Hôpital de Montmagny and
Thetford Mines Day Center for Intellectual Disability and Autism Spectrum Disorder).
People with symptoms similar to COVID-19 can call 1 877 644-4545 for an assessment and an appointment
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