The Saskatchewan Health Authority says testing for COVID-19 among Saskatoon’s vulnerable population is increasing thanks to a partnership between the Authority and local community-based organizations. It’s allowing for more mobile COVID-19 testing sites around the city.

Mobile sites include The Lighthouse, Central Urban Métis Federation Inc., Prairie Harm Reduction, White Buffalo Youth Lodge, Friendship Inn, Saskatoon Food Bank and Learning Centre, YWCA, Salvation Army, and Meewasinota Community Residential Facility.

Charmaine Bellamy, Primary Health Care Manger, Core and Downtown Network says, “With a population we have not always supported adequately or met their needs, we are now doing important work that is rebuilding trust.”

The mobile testing work for COVID-19 began in Saskatoon in. In the beginning, about five people a day were being tested at Prairie Harm Reduction. The team recently tested 27 people in one day.