The kits will be available through the Melfort Trade Alliance Chamber of Commerce. (Twitter/ Saskatchewan Health Authority)

By Rachel May

Rapid Test Kits

Northeast residents can soon test for COVID-19 at home

Oct 20, 2021 | 5:00 PM

Residents in Saskatchewan will soon be able to take rapid test kits home for voluntary asymptomatic COVID monitoring.

The Government of Saskatchewan announced on Oct. 18 that COVID rapid tests would be shipped to distribution centres.

Humboldt Chamber of Commerce and Melfort Trade Alliance Chamber of Commerce (MTACC) will serve as distribution points but have not yet received quality test kits.

Cam Lee, director of the MTACC, said the test kits are expected to arrive early next week.

“We’ve been in contact with the Saskatchewan chamber and the provincial government. The tests will be first come, first served,” Lee said.

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Melfort’s Historic Post Office will serve as the distribution site. It can be accessed through the southwest door.

Distribution will occur on Tuesday and Thursday from 1 p.m. till 4:30 p.m. or until supplies run out.

The number of testing kits per household will be limited to one. There will be five tests in each kit.

The Melfort and District Fire Department is not a distribution point, according to fire chief Shaun Stewart.

“As of right now, the fire department is not part of the distribution process. I have put the required info forward and from what I understand all the logistics are still being worked out,” Stewart said.

The Humboldt and District Chamber of Commerce will be announcing on their Facebook page when they have received their own kits for distribution.

North East School Division (NESD) has received its rapid tests and the schools will soon be able to pick up their testing kits.

The NESD’s director of education, Don Rempel, said that schools in the division will be able to request kits.

“We have been receiving rapid tests to distribute to schools. We have a system set up where schools can request tests and we distribute as best we can when supply is provided.” Rempel said.

The Government of Saskatchewan says the rapid tests do not replace a COVID test through the province’s health authority.

You can learn when you can pick up MTACC’s rapid test kits on their Facebook page.

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