RE:RE:Canada population 37.7m. Only 1.15m people tested!$Across the country, provinces have begun to slowly lift measures put in place to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus. But, as restrictions are lifted, experts say Canada will need to ramp up testing.
According to the Public Health Agency of Canada, by 11 a.m. on Monday, more than 1,119,000 people in Canada had been tested for the novel coronavirus.
Dr. Isaac Bogoch, an infectious disease specialist based out of Toronto General Hospital, said as public health restrictions are lifted, Canada will need ram up diagnostic testing. As businesses begin to reopen their doors, some have indicated they may implement mandatory temperature checks for their employees in an effort to detect the virus.But the practice does not have a very good history of being effective, Dr. Steven Hoffman, scientific director of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s Institute of Population and Public Health, said.
“For example, during SARS, at the Canadian border, we tested millions of people for their temperatures, and not a single case of SARS was found in that process,” he explained. “So, I mean, mass temperature checks are more about showing people that something’s being done rather than it being a particularly effective measure.”
In my opinion, testing is much needed especially in hospital, nursing home, factories, people travel on airplane within Canada, into to other countries etc.