Dr. Kieran Moore, KFL&A Public Health’s chief medical officer, says he’s encouraged that the number of cases of the novel coronavirus in the area has dropped from 54 to 53 people this week.
This comes as COVID-19 testing has increased to 100 tests a day and the criteria have been expanded to include more people. Moore says individuals can now be referred by their family physician. “If they had a febrile respiratory illness and they were concerned about COVID-19 as a cause and they couldn’t find a contact history or travel history for that individual but suspected it, they were referring patients all week.” Testing in hospitals has increased as well, according to Moore. [ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus