The Tri-Cities' only COVID-19 testing site will soon be closing its doors, leaving the region — which is home to more than 200,000 people — with no local coronavirus assessment site. The Tri-Cities' COVID-19 and Influenza-Like Illness Assessment Clinic in Port Coquitlam was started by a group of independent family physicians after the closure of a previous testing site in New Westminster. Four months later, no new testing site has opened and the staff at the small clinic are at their wits' ends. "With our limited staff and resources, we are no longer able to continue running our testing site." "The lack of a testing site in the New Westminster and Tri-Cities area leaves a significant population without a convenient and accessible COVID-19 testing site," they wrote.

Source: CBC News September 25, 2020 17:26 UTC