COVID-19 assessment centres in the first year of the pandemic, according to the team in charge of coronavirus testing in the capital.The Ottawa COVID-19 Testing Taskforce released statistics Monday marking one year since The Ottawa Hospital first opened one of its centres to test for the virus locally on March 13, 2020.In total, workers at Ottawa assessment centres took 535,312 swabs in the first year of the pandemic.The city’s testing system was memorably challenged during the peaks of the pandemic in Ottawa, but capacity eventually caught up to match surges in demand.
Spiking COVID-19 cases put Ottawa into possible red zone territory While the Brewer Assessment Centre — the first such testing site in Ottawa — could only handle roughly.