Prime Minister François Legault called the news media to a press conference that had not been announced before.
We can expect that this press conference announced Thursday morning will report on government and public health decisions in light of a daily increase in cases of COVID-19 contamination in Quebec and possibly on deadlines. in screening centers and for obtaining rapid tests for the coronavirus.
Prime Minister Legault’s press conference will begin at 5:00 p.m. He will be accompanied by the Minister of Health, Christian Dubé, and the National Director of Public Health, Horacio Arruda.
In the meantime, the computer platform that allows Quebecers to make an appointment to be able to undergo a COVID-19 screening test is still not working Thursday morning.
Just like the day before, access to the platform displays a message stating that it is in a maintenance period and that it will be available shortly, without giving details. People are encouraged to retry their registration later.
The inability to make an appointment contributes to the increase in attendance at walk-in screening centers. For example, a few hours before dawn on Thursday, many people lined up at the Chauveau screening clinic located on the street of the same name on the territory of the Integrated University Health and Social Services Center (CISSS) of the East of the Island of Montreal.
On Wednesday, the computer problems of the screening platform manifested themselves when hundreds of appointments were registered for a period of a few minutes at the same screening center. The staff in place could not respond to such a crowd and as a result, several registrants had to turn back without being tested.
Long queues were then observed in front of many screening centers in Quebec.
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