Denman clinic offers COVID-19 testing with home isolation
The island medical clinic says people with specified exposure or symptoms can come for a swab and are expected to isolate while awaiting results.
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The Denman Island Medical Clinic says people with certain travel or contact histories, or symptoms causing concern, can come to the clinic for a naso-pharyngeal swab for COVID-19 testing.[1]
The clinic says people tested are expected to self-isolate at home until results are complete, which it estimates will take 3–4 days. It directs people to phone the Coronavirus hotline for results.[1]
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The Islands Grapevine, March 26, 2020
You can come to the Denman Medical clinic for a naso-pharyngeal swab for COVID-19 testing.
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