COVID-19 assessment centres exclusively for school children to reduce the amount of time kids have to spend waiting for a test.Lambton County hopes the sites will help get students back into classrooms faster if they’re dealing with mild seasonal illnesses but need to rule out the possibility of having the novel coronavirus.Two of the by-appointment centres opened earlier this month — just as students returned to school — and had performed 247 tests as of Tuesday.
A third site was set to open Thursday. Appointments currently need to be made by phone but an online booking system is in the works.The student-only centres have been “very, very, very busy,” according to the region’s top doctor.