Are you eligible for testing?
Prioritization for Molecular Testing for COVID-19 Infection (Effective April 11th, 2022 Ontario Health):
For COVID-19 molecular testing, these are the groups/populations eligible and prioritized:
Symptomatic individuals who are:
- Immunocompromised
- 70 and older
- 60 and older who had less than three COVID-19 vaccine doses
- 18 and older who had less than three COVID-19 vaccine doses and suffer from at least one of the following conditions:
- Diabetes
- Obesity (BMI ≥ 30kg/m2)
- Cerebral palsy
- Intellectual and/or behavioral disability
- Heart disease, hypertension, or congestive heart failure
- Chronic respiratory disease, including cystic fibrosis
- Sickle cell disease
- Moderate to severe liver disease (e.g., Child-Pugh Class B or Cirrhosis)
- Moderate to severe kidney disease (eGFR ⟨ 60mL/min)
Other people at high risk:
- Pregnant people
- Patient-facing healthcare professionals
- Staff, workers, residents, volunteers, and care providers in high-risk zones, which include:
- Hospitals (including continuing care and paramedics facilities)
- Communal/shared living facilities housing medically vulnerable individuals, like:
- Long-term homes
- Group homes
- Retirement facilities
- First Nation eldercare lodges
- Shelters
- Hospice centers
- Correctional institutions
- Hospital universities
- Household members of the above individuals
- Home and community care providers/staff members
- Students and staff in Provincial and Demonstration Schools
- Elementary and secondary students and staff
- International agriculture workers in communal/shared living settings
- Patients seeking urgent medical care (under the supervision and recommendation of their attending physician)
- Under-housed or homeless populations
- First responders, like:
- Paramedics
- Policemen/women
- Firefighters
- Other outpatients needing the diagnostic care for better care delivery and receipt