RVH in Barrie, Ont., now able to conduct rapid coronavirus testing on site

The Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre (RVH) in Barrie, Ont., is now able conduct rapid novel coronavirus testing on site.

“Using existing equipment, RVH can analyze four samples at once and get results within an hour,” Russell Price, the medical director of the hospital’s laboratory medicine department, said in a statement.

“RVH will continue to use the public health laboratory and shared hospitals laboratory for most of the daily testing, but some priority inpatient and health-care worker samples can now be quickly processed in-house.”

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RVH says it’s one of about a dozen hospitals in Ontario that’s been approved by the ministry of health to conduct sample testing on site.

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