COVID-19 testing centre is now open at the former Barrie Police Service headquarters at 29 Sperling Dr. as the Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre (RVH) plans to close the assessment site at the hospital.The new Sperling Drive site opened Monday for people who book appointments in advance, although later this week, RVH says the centre will begin to provide drive-thru testing from 8 a.m.
to 8 p.m. New pop-up COVID-19 assessment centre planned for old Barrie Police HQ building “Our onsite COVID-19 test clinic has seen an overwhelming spike in visits recently, going from an average 230 people per day to a staggering 500 or more,” RVH’s vice-president of patient programs, flow and chief nurse executive, Liz Ferguson, said in a statement.[.