Emergency responders in Peterborough are tackling the coronavirus pandemic with additional precautions. Peterborough County-City Paramedics have been assisting Peterborough Public Health, Peterborough Regional Health Centre and other health-care providers by conducting in-home tests for COVID-19.
The service was launched last week. According to paramedics chief Randy Mellow, as of Thursday, paramedics have tested 84 individuals in the city and county.
The health unit reported Thursday its first hospitalized case of COVID-19 is a patient who was initially tested at home by paramedics. “The idea there is to obviously keep people safe and to keep people in that environment so we can decrease the spread (of the virus),” said Mellow.