COVID 19 Testing Sites Overwhelmed as Cases Rise, Kids Return to School

A healthcare worker walks along the line up of people waiting outside a COVID testing facility in Ottawa on Sept. 15, 2020. Several hundred people lined up on a soccer field to wait for testing. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

OTTAWA—Provinces are looking to expand COVID-19 testing as many Canadians wait long hours to be swabbed or can’t get in for testing at all.

Demand for testing surged in much of the country in recent days, as schools and universities reopened and the number of identified cases began to rise.