As of Friday, the ministry of health reported that 92,673 people in Ontario had been tested for COVID-19, and 6,768 were positive for the virus. Ontario’s COVID-19 tests are done by Public Health Ontario, and a growing group of private and hospital laboratories. Controversy in the provincial COVID-19 testing world continues as despite recent increased capacity, the number of daily swabs taken has dropped, though Premier Doug Ford said Saturday that situation will improve. At the main provincial lab, technologists who perform the tests using high-tech machinery run the test in batches (usually 96 samples at a time) and upload the results to the Ontario Lab Information System. You can’t just say bring us all the technologists and they will be able to do it.”Until the last two weeks, the provincial lab in Toronto was running two shifts.

Source: thestar April 11, 2020 00:00 UTC