福特省长承诺在安大略省进行更多的COVID-19检测Premier Ford promises more COVID-19

testing everyone in Canada for kovin 19


would be an ambitious and expensive goal


in this crisis something that would


likely be difficult if not outright


impossible to achieve


right now no government is talking about


doing that but Saskatchewan is launching


the most aggressive plan yet starting


next week Monday Saskatchewan will offer


a test to anyone who works outside the


home or is returning to their workplace


all they have to do is ask they don't


even have to have symptoms it is unclear


though whether people will be rushing


out to get a test personally like I


don't necessarily feel like need to if


I'm feeling healthy I have a family that


I go home to so that would definitely be


something I would want to do if I need


it if I felt like I needed to


Saskatchewan is the first province in


the country to offer such expansive


widespread testing the province is also


one of the leaders in loosening


restrictions and allowing more


businesses and services to reopen now


Ontario one of the harder hit provinces


is continuing to struggle with tests


Mike Crowley covers Ontario legislative


affairs for CBC News and he is at


Queen's Park the legislature for us this


morning Mike's been doing a lot of


reporting on testing so what is


happening in Ontario now well Heather


Ontario is supposed to hit a target of


16,000 tests per day and for the last


three days running it has fallen


woefully short of that basically


averaging about half of the benchmark


the provincial officials are chalking


that up to the effect of the long


weekend saying that fewer people were


showing up to get tested but the fact is


that all throughout May


Ontario's actually only hit its 16,000


tested a target basically about half of


the days this month supreme reduct Ford


he's making some bold promises about


what Ontario is going to do with testing


take a listen


we're gonna ramp up this testing like


this province is never seen another 3-4


weeks we're gonna do a lot of testing I


can I can stand here and promise you


that I'm gonna be all over this testing


what does stuck for being by a lot of


testing we'll know details from him or


his officials in terms of actual numbers


of where Ontario is going to get with


testing in the next three to four weeks


Heather so Mike what we had seen in


Ontario was a long-term care facilities


that was where the testing was based now


it's beginning to expand beyond that of


checking people who feel symptoms what


are experts saying though that Ontario


has to do to make the tests even more


widespread


well that thing of allowing anybody who


has symptoms to get tested that's


literally only been in the past week and


it was a cause of a lot of frustration


for people who felt they had pot


potentially cases of kovat 19 Dokdo


sought they might have had it and yet


they weren't able to get the test


because the tests were being rationed so


strictly here in Ontario so I spoke to a


number of epidemiologists though that


say that this pandemic is largely about


or a lot about people who don't have


symptoms coming down with the illness


and actually potentially spreading it


and that's what they're thinking


Ontario needs to be looking at in the in


the coming weeks and months especially


as the economy reopens all of those


people who are out there working


potentially getting exposed here's what


one epidemiologist I spoke to from the


University of Ottawa had to say about


what he calls surveillance testing means


not testing just in the symptomatic of


the people we know or lightly infected


but going after the cases where we think


they exist but are aware of them yet so


hunting the disease down so hunting it


down that means what other experts told


me would be going to grocery store


workers who are out there having a lot


of public interactions taxi drivers bus


drivers people who are going back to


work and have the potential to be


exposed to the virus just like what's


happening there in Saskatchewan it's


quite a contrast from what's going on in


in cheerio


as you mentioned it's sketch one people


who are working at all out in the public


can get a test starting on Monday that's


not the case here in Ontario