{"id":29781,"date":"2020-03-23T08:32:08","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T12:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=29781"},"modified":"2020-08-17T09:46:14","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T13:46:14","slug":"closure-of-drive-test-centres-in-response-to-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/23\/closure-of-drive-test-centres-in-response-to-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Closure of Drive Test Centres In Response to COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christine Elliott, Deputy Premier and Minister of Health, and Caroline Mulroney, Minister of Transportation issued the following statement today regarding the status of Drive Test Centres and Travel Point locations:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Based on the advice of Ontario&#8217;s Chief Medical Officer of Health to help prevent the spread of COVID-19, all full-time DriveTest Centres and part-time Travel Point locations will be closed. The closures will take effect March 23, 2020 until further notice.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to close was the result of a mutual agreement between the government and service provider.<\/p>\n<p>Ontarians can rest assured they will not lose their current driver&#8217;s licences due to this decision and no driver&#8217;s licence applicants will lose test fees as a result of the closures. The current &#8220;Fail to Keep Appointment&#8221; penalty fee will also be waived.<\/p>\n<p>We have a responsibility to Ontarians to ensure that we take every possible step to enable social distancing and prevent the spread of COVID-19.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>ADDITIONAL RESOURCES<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Please visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.drivetest.ca\/\">www.drivetest.ca<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontario.ca\/page\/extended-validation-periods\">https:\/\/www.ontario.ca\/page\/extended-validation-periods<\/a>\u00a0for more information.<\/li>\n<li>Visit Ontario&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontario.ca\/page\/2019-novel-coronavirus\">website<\/a>\u00a0to learn more about how the province continues to protect Ontarians from COVID-19.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christine Elliott, Deputy Premier and Minister of Health, and Caroline Mulroney, Minister of Transportation issued the following statement today regarding the status of Drive Test Centres and Travel Point locations: &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-provincial"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 04:14:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29782,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29781\/revisions\/29782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}