KITCHENER New details are emerging on what the targeted COVID-19 testing systems are going to look like for students in Waterloo Region. Trustees with the region s public board discussed the matter at length on Monday evening. A new and enhanced testing system will happen outside of school hours, including on weekends. For the first week, targeted asymptomatic testing will be run out of current pop-up testing sites at Kingsdale Community Centre and Victoria Hills Community Centre. Both the public and Catholic boards will invite asymptomatic students and staff from specific schools in order to meet the Ministry of Education mandated targets of testing six public and two Catholic schools a week.
Do more to protect Black, racialized people against COVID-19, says community group
The upcoming pop-up testing centres are a start, but Teneile Warren and the ACB Network want public health to do more for the region s , hit disproportionately hard by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The upcoming pop-up COVID-19 testing centres are a start. But activist Teneile Warren wants public health to do more for the region s Black and racialized communities, hit disproportionately hard by the pandemic.(Evan Mitsui/CBC)
Pop-up COVID-19 testing coming to 2 Kitchener community centres
A new pilot project will see COVID-19 tests offered at two Kitchener community centres, in an effort to improve access to testing for neighbourhoods hit hard by the novel coronavirus.
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The Region of Waterloo has announced COVID-19 testing will be offered at two community centres in Kitchener to make it easier for those living in hard-hit neighbourhoods to get tested.(Evan Mitsui/CBC)
The sites are part of a pilot project and will operate in local community centres. The clinics are located at Kingsdale Community Centre at 72 Wilson Ave. and Victoria Hills Community Centre at 10 Chopin Dr. The Kingsdale location will have clinics on Feb. 11, 18 and 25 between 2 and 5 p.m. and will serve residents in the Vanier and Rockway neighbourhoods. Victoria Hills will be open on Feb. 16 and 23 and March 22 from 4 to 7 p.m. for people living in Highland West and Victoria Hills. In a news release, the City of Kitchener said the project is part of a collaboration with the African Caribbean and Black Network of Waterloo Region, the African Family Revival Organization and the AIDS Committee of Cambridge, Kitchener, Waterloo and Area. It s supported by St. Mary s General Hospital, Region of Waterloo Public Health and the City of Kitchener.