Asymptomatic COVID-19 Testing
COVID-19 testing is available at Glen Cade Pharmacy for asymptomatic individuals that meet criteria established by the province:
- Residents or workers in long-term care home
- Visitors to a long-term care home
- Residents or workers in homeless shelter
- International students that have passed their 14-day quarantine period
- Farm workers
- Self-Identified Indigenous
In order to be tested, you must:
- Be asymptomatic (you have no symptoms of COVID-19)*
- Have not been in contact with someone known to have COVID-19 within the past 14 days**
- Have not travelled outside of Canada within the last 14 days
- Have not been advised to get tested for COVID-19 by your local public health unit due to exposure to a confirmed case or as part of an outbreak investigation
- Have not been advised to get tested for COVID-19 through an exposure notification through the COVID-19 app
- Have not been diagnosed with COVID-19 within the past 30 days
If you meet the criteria and would like to be tested, please contact Glen Cade Pharmacy to arrange a test at 416-622-2111
* Fever, new onset of cough, worsening chronic cough, shortness of breath, difficulty breathing, sore throat, difficulty swallowing, decrease of loss of sense of taste or smell, chills, headaches, unexplained fatigue/malaise/muscle aches, (myalgias), nausea/vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, pink eye, (conjunctivitis), runny nose or nasal congestion without other known cause.
** Close contact is defined as:
- A person who provided care for the patient, including healthcare workers, family member or other caregivers, or
- who had other similar close physical contact or
- Who lived with or otherwise had close, prolonged contact with a probable or confirmed case while the case was ill.
