Over the past 10 days, we’ve been asking Global News viewers, readers and listeners to send us questions they have for the province about its response to the novel coronavirus pandemic. (You can still do so here.) The most frequently asked question we’ve received over the past few days is why we’re not engaged in widespread testing of all Manitobans for COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, as recommended by the World Health Organization.
The short answer is we can’t — not yet. The long answer, however, is multi-pronged, according to Dr. Brent Roussin, the province’s chief public health officer, and Shared Health spokesperson Lanette Siragusa.