Care Clinics
After this date, if you need a COVID-19 test, assessment or treatment, you can:
- Contact your primary care provider (family doctor or nurse practitioner)
- Contact your pharmacy or locate the nearest pharmacy that provides COVID-19 testing
- Call 8-1-1 or visit ontario.ca/health811 for more information about testing, assessment and treatment
- Consult https://www.ontario.ca/assessment-centre-locations for an open assessment centre near you
Don’t delay if you think you have COVID-19 and are seeking treatment. You will need to start treatment within five days from symptom onset.
Call 9-1-1 or go to the nearest emergency department if you or your child have severe symptoms.
For Adults
severe symptoms include:
- Shortness of breath
- Chest pain
- Loss of consciousness
- Confusion
For children
severe symptoms include:
- Working hard or straining to breathe – for example, the lower chest is moving in more than normal when the child breathes, the child is grunting, or the child’s nostrils are flaring
- Bluish skin
- Unable to breastfeed or drink
- Very sleepy or difficult to wake
- Peeing less than usual
- Fever with a rash
- Seizures or convulsions
- Fever in an infant younger than three months
Mississauga Health recognizes the pivotal role COVID, Cold and Flu Care Clinics (CCFCC) have played during the pandemic to care for people experiencing influenza-like-illnesses and avoid unnecessary visits to the emergency department.
As many CCFCC in Ontario wind down, Mississauga Health will continue to support the needs of the community by extending operations of two clinics until April 30th.
When to Visit
Visit a Mississauga Care Clinic if you have mild or moderate cold, flu or COVID-like symptoms and:
- have been directed by your primary care provider or other health care professional; or
- are unable to safely monitor your symptoms at home; or
- are at risk of severe illness, including:
- immunocompromised individuals
- unvaccinated individuals over 60
- unvaccinated First Nations, Inuit, and Metis individuals over 50
- unvaccinated individuals over 50 with one or more risk factors:
- obesity, dialysis or stage 5 kidney disease, diabetes, cerebral palsy, intellectual disability of any severity, sickle cell disease, receiving active cancer treatment, solid organ or stem cell transplant recipients.
Other Testing Locations
A number of locations in the community provide COVID-19 testing. Visit the Peel Public Health website for more information.