Upcoming rapid COVID testing cancelled

By CityNews Halifax Staff

Posted Apr 16, 2021 10:09:32 PM.

NEWS RELEASE
NOVA SCOTIA HEALTH
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Pop-up rapid COVID-19 testing previously scheduled for Sunday April 18 and Monday April 19 at St. Andrew’s United Church in Halifax are cancelled due to a scheduling conflict. For updated rapid testing locations, please visit: https://www.nshealth.ca/content/covid-19-rapid-testing.

If you have no symptoms and would like to get a COVID-19 test, visit https://covid-self-assessment.novascotia.ca/en to book an appointment online.

If you have symptoms of COVID-19, you must self-isolate immediately and visit https://covid-self-assessment.novascotia.ca/en to complete a COVID-19 self-assessment.

Standard asymptomatic (PCR) testing is available on an ongoing basis across the province by completing a COVID-19 self-assessment at https://covid-self-assessment.novascotia.ca/en

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