tuition-free course being offered at Winnipeg’s Red River College is expected to help ease the strain on the province’s COVID-19 testing system.The college says the micro-credential course can be completed in as little as five hours, and is designed to train health care workers or students to collect the nasal swabs used to test for the virus.“As the college continues to evolve the ways it delivers education in the face of COVID-19, we are proud to offer this new micro-credential that will prepare our front line and students from a variety of health-care programs to help reduce the spread of the virus,” said Fred Meier, president and CEO of Red River College, in a news release.