• The Collingwood COVID-19 Assessment Centre is located in the parking lot behind the Collingwood Legion at 490 Ontario Street and operates both the appointment based drive-through COVID-19 assessments and flu shot clinics.
• The Wasaga Beach COVID-19 Assessment Centre is located in the parking lot behind the RecPlex at 1724 Mosley Street and operates both the appointment based drive-through COVID-19 assessments and flu shot clinics.
• Ontario assessment centres will NOT be testing asymptomatic individuals who have not had contact with COVID-19 cases, or outbreaks, and are not in high-risk workplaces. For most up-to-date guidelines go to the covid-19.ontario.ca

We all must do our part to follow the public health guidelines and practice:

PRACTICING THE 3 W’S
Wear a mask
Watch your distance
Wash your hands

AND AVOID THE 3 C’S
Closed spaces, especially with poor ventilation
Crowded places
Close contact settings

Close Contact, Gatherings and Events (Public Health Guidelines)

• Limit close contact to your household only (the people you live with).
• Maintain two metres of physical distancing from everyone else.
• Do not visit any other household or allow visitors to your home.
• Individuals who live alone, including seniors, may consider having exclusive, close contact with another household to help reduce the negative impacts of social isolation.
  Everyone should avoid social gatherings.
• Virtual gatherings or events are the safest way to visit or recognize occasions with people outside your household.
• Trips outside of the home should only be for essential reasons (work, school, groceries/pharmacy, health care, assisting vulnerable individuals, or exercise and physical activity).
• Wear a face covering in indoor public spaces, outdoors if physical distancing cannot be maintained, or if wearing one is required.

Travelling

• Staying home is the best way to protect yourself and others.
• Individuals and families in higher transmission areas should avoid travel to lower transmission areas (i.e. from Red to Orange, from Yellow to Green) except for essential reasons.
• Individuals living away from home, including those studying at colleges and universities, should consider doing a self-quarantine, or drastically reducing close contact with others, 10 to 14 days before returning home for the holidays. This will help lower the risk of exposure to COVID-19.

General Advice

• Stay home if you have symptoms, even if they are mild.
• Wash your hands thoroughly and regularly.
• Cover your cough.
• Download the COVID Alert mobile app.
• Get tested if you have symptoms compatible with COVID-19, or if you’ve been advised of exposure by the health unit or through the COVID Alert mobile app.

COVID testing for travel

• The Ontario government, in consultation with the Chief Medical Officer of Health, has announced COVID-19 testing for outbound international travellers will no longer be funded by the province. Area residents will no longer be able to book a test at the COVID-19 Assessment Centre in Collingwood or Wasaga Beach if the reason for the test is travel.
• The province recommends travellers consult the guidelines of their airline and country of destination and if a test is required, seek the test through a private testing facility or travel clinic. Participating Shoppers Drug Mart and Lifelabs locations are available online or ww.lifelabs.com/flyclear/