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More assessment centres are likely to open in the next few days as hospital officials scout through the city to find other suitable locations.

Visitors to the centre will be asked for their OHIP card. Nurses will assess vital signs, and those who qualify for the test will get a nose swab. The results should be available within six to 12 hours.

The assessment centre is able to assess children, but parents of children six months and younger are asked to go instead to the emergency department at CHEO.

Officials also urged people being tested to not bring healthy people with them.

The new Ottawa case confirmed Friday — an unnamed woman in her 40s who had travelled to England and is in self-isolation, appears to be Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, wife of the prime minister, who confirmed late Thursday night that she has COVID-19.

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The new cases were among 20 new infections announced Friday morning on the Ontario government’s COVID-19 tracking website.

Friday’s cases bring the province’s total of confirmed COVID-19 infections to 79. They include nine females and six males, while the genders of five of the cases weren’t released. The oldest is a man in his 80s, who is also the only one of the new cases who is in hospital. Twelve of the cases involved travel, including four from the United States and two from Egypt. Others had close contact with an infected person while in five cases, the means of transmission is still under investigation. With the exception of the hospitalized man, all others are reported to be self-isolating.