Horizon Health has announced it is opening three new, temporary COVID-19 assessment centres in rural areas, one of which will be in Sackville.
The three sites will be appointment only, and are meant to “help enhance testing capacity and increase accessibility to rural residents in our coverage area,” says a Horizon news release.
A site in Perth-Andover at a Baptish Church began taking appointments today.
The Sussex location will be at Gateway Mall, and a Sackville location has yet to be determined. Those locations will open in the coming days, says the Horizon release.
Hours of operation at each location will be determined based on need, and sites will remain in place as long as there is a demand, says the release. The sites will not accept walk-in patients.
Anyone with COVID-19 symptoms in the Sackville area should still complete the online assessment or call 811.
The release says sites with significant rural, Indigenous and student populations were selected for assessment centres.
Jean Daigle, Horizon’s VP Community, says the new sites will help, “reduce the social and financial burden of having to travel longer distances to receive COVID-19 testing.”
They also said the sites should, “encourage more people to get tested and help control the spread of the virus.”
Recently, a COVID-19 case was detected in Sackville within the Mount Allison community, where voluntary asymptomatic testing was made available to all self-isolating members of the university community.
For more details on that case, click here.
