One year since Canada’s 1st COVID-19 case. Here’s how daily life has changed for some Over the weekend, Health Canada also approved a rapid on-site PCR coronavirus test that was developed by Ottawa-based Spartan Bioscience.[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]According to Bogoch, the company has done well despite having some bumps earlier on in the road where it wasn’t as accurate.
Since then, it has been redeveloped and “looks like it works well.”“This is going to be fantastic. You can roll this out into places that have either barriers to diagnostic testing or just less access to diagnostic tests,” he said, adding these tests can be placed in underserved sectors of the industry where outbreaks are.