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As Canada heads towards a sixth wave of COVID-19 with rising cases and hospitalizations across the country, experts say people can still test negative on a rapid test in the first few days they have symptoms.

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COVID-19: Latest on rapid test rollout in B.C.

Global’s Keith Baldrey has the latest on the rollout of rapid tests for COVID-19 by the B.C. government.

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COVID-19: Free rapid antigen tests now available at these Guelph locations

announced on Wednesday that it will be distributing 5.5 million rapid antigen tests for COVID-19 each week for eight weeks to various pharmacy and grocery store locations across the province.Over 2,300 locations will provide the tests while supplies last with a limit of one box of five tests per household. Free COVID rapid antigen tests now available at Ontario grocery stores, pharmacies at one-box limit Some participating retailers include Costco, Shoppers Drug Mart, Loblaws, Metro, Food Basics, Rexall, Sobeys, Real Canadian Superstore, Longo’s, Walmart, among others.There are at least 34 locations in Guelph that are offering the tests.

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Alberta reaches highest-ever active cases of COVID-19 as rapid tests still scarce

On Thursday, there were 62,000 active lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Alberta — the highest amount ever in the province since the pandemic began. It comes as COVID-19 rapid antigen test kits are still hard to come by.

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Frustrated Albertans scramble to find free COVID-19 antigen test kits following provincial rollout

A day after Alberta rolled out free COVID-19 antigen test kits, there was mounting frustration as supply ran low.

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At-home COVID-19 rapid test kits now available for k-6 Alberta schools with outbreaks

Alberta Education Minister Arianna LaGrange announces at-home COVID-19 rapid test kits are available for kindergarten to Grade 6 students and staff at schools on outbreak status.

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Distribution of COVID 19 rapid test kits cut short in New Brunswick

Rapid tests roll out in New Brunswick’s circuit breaker zones The distribution, however, was suspended by 11:30 a.m. in Moncton and by 1 p.m.

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Waterloo company offering ‘low-cost’ rapid COVID-19 antigen test kits to the public

COVID-19 rapid antigen tests: Everything you need to know “With the rising number of COVID-19 outbreaks in schools and workplaces across the country, we recognized the need for more accessible and widespread testing,” Jeremy Hedges, The Canadian Shield CEO, stated.“Due to regulatory issues, everyday Canadians are paying some of the highest prices in the world for rapid testing – we strongly believe that we can play a role in making that no longer the case.”The company says the kits will only be available to residents of Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia.The Canadian Shield says it expects wider availability “as provincial ministries issue interim orders and change the regulatory landscape.” Parent-led rapid COVID-19 testing program

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COVID-19 rapid test kits distributed by Nova Scotia schools have expired tests

Schools across the province have been sending rapid test kits home with students from pre-primary to Grade 6. The goal is to detect COVID-19 cases sooner by allowing parents to test their children at home.

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COVID-19: Saskatchewan ordering more rapid test kits, may look for other options as demand grows

rapid tests than kits to go home with students to test for COVID-19.Rapid testing kits were distributed to Saskatchewan schools this week, and across the board, the school divisions said the same thing: many schools are running low, or have families on waitlists.

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US to increase at-home COVID-19 rapid test availability

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Guelph’s public health unit will participate in COVID-19 rapid test program in schools

COVID-19 rapid test program in schools and licensed child-care settings.The Ontario government announced on Tuesday morning that tests for unvaccinated students with no symptoms will be made available to locations where transmission is high. Ontario announces ‘targeted’ COVID-19 rapid test program in schools Within hours of that announcement, Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health announced its intention to participate and that planning locally is already underway.“I am pleased to see the province add this layer of protection,” said medical officer of health Dr.

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Sunny Hostin & Ana Navarro Tested Negative for COVID-19 on Rapid Tests Taken After 'The View' On-Air Fiasco

There was an on-air fiasco today on The View when it was announced that co-hosts Sunny Hostin and Ana Navarro both tested positive for breakthrough cases of COVID-19, which led to their removal from the stage.

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Covid-19 antigen tests to be available at this Ikea outlet

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Alberta increasing access to COVID-19 rapid testing program

COVID-19.Businesses and service providers that want to offer rapid testing will no longer need to have a health-care provider oversee their program. Edmonton airport staff being offered rapid COVID-19 testing through 8-week mobile lab program Organizations will be able to participate in the rapid testing program independently.

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SHA expands Regina COVID-19 drive-thru testing site due to high demand

COVID-19 drive-thru testing site in Regina are expanding, the Saskatchewan Health Authority said.Beginning Wednesday, the site will be open from 8:30 a.m. to 11 p.m., seven days a week.“With the increase in COVID-19 variants of concern in the Regina area, it’s more important than ever to get tested, even if you have mild symptoms or feel you’ve been in a situation where transmission has occurred,” said the authority in a press release Wednesday.

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Consent forms will be issued to staff and parents for Alberta COVID-19 rapid test pilot

Alberta Education Minister Adrianna LaGrange says parents and staff will need to sign consent forms as part of the province’s pilot project to roll out COVID-19 rapid testing in two schools.

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COVID-19: Alberta expands rapid testing to schools, oil and gas, meat-packing plants

COVID-19 rapid testing program to target asymptomatic people in various sectors across the province, including oil and gas, schools and banks.Students at two Calgary schools — one in the Calgary Board Education and one in the Calgary Catholic School District — will be involved in a pilot rapid testing program, which will begin as early as next week.Officials are hoping to learn if rapid tests will be an effective way of managing outbreaks, Education Minister Adriana LaGrange said Thursday. How rapid tests are being used to test for COVID-19 across Canada She said the tests will be done on staff and students who don’t have symptoms of the novel coronavirus.

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Portable, rapid testing units grease wheels at Brier in Calgary’s curling bubble

coronavirus.The Canadian Olympic Committee and Canadian Paralympic Committee purchased 17 Hyris Bcube units from Songbird Life Sciences in Guelph, Ont., and tasked Own The Podium with their deployment.

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Hinshaw, Shandro to provide provincial COVID-19 update Tuesday afternoon

COVID-19 in the province and “the ongoing work to protect public health.”The chief medical officer of health and minister will be making their comments at 4 p.m. and you can watch them in this story.

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At-home and over-the-counter: U.S. strikes deal for COVID-19 rapid test kit

White House coronavirus adviser Andy Slavitt says the government awarded a $231-million contract to scale up production of a COVID-19 home test recently authorized by U.S. regulators.For months, health experts have stressed the need for fast, widespread home testing so that people can screen themselves and avoid contact with others if they have an infection.

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How rapid tests are being used to test for COVID-19 across Canada

About 1.3 millionBC’s Ministry of Health could not provide a number of tests used, but says as of Jan. 12, more than 230,000 rapid point-of-care tests have been distributed to local health authorities.According to the Ministry of Health, the province has a number of pilot programs for long-term care homes, acute care, residents coming into provincial correctional facilities, and rural and remote settings, including First Nations and Indigenous communities.

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Performance of an Antigen-Based Test for Asymptomatic and Symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Testing at Two University Campuses — Wisconsin, September–October 2020

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Provinces urge feds to ramp up rapid testing at airports amid new COVID-19 variant

quarantine rules and aren’t bringing more cases of the novel coronavirus onto Canadian soil.The calls come amid multiple reports of a new COVID-19 variant spreading within the U.K. and, recently, making its way into Canada.

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US authorizes first over-the-counter COVID-19 antigen test

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Get rapid tests into care homes now, says B.C. seniors’ advocate

Fraser Health Authority’s move to oversee a pair of Abbotsford care homes with serious COVID-19 outbreaks underscores the need to deploy rapid tests as soon as possible.Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said in late November that B.C.

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New research suggests Alberta COVID-19 R value currently too high to lift restrictions

new measures announced on Nov. 24.[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]Kenney said the province’s R value must be below one by Dec.

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‘She just had a negative test’: COVID-19 hits family hard after expedited test at Calgary airport

COVID-19 test pilot after a family member returned home and spread the virus to at least seven other people after an initial negative result.Last month, Gabe Kane’s sister, who currently lives with him and his family, took part in the YYC rapid test pilot program for a work-related trip to Utah.The pilot program allows international travellers to bypass the mandatory 14-day quarantine rule if they receive a negative COVID-19 test result. Expedited COVID-19 testing now available at Calgary airport, Coutts border crossing When Kane’s sister returned, she isolated at the airport hotel until her first test result came back.

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The U.S. is conducting millions more rapid coronavirus tests, but are results reported?

coronavirus testing, the U.S. can now screen several million people daily, thanks to a growing supply of rapid tests.

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Health Canada approves first antigen rapid test for coronavirus

Health Canada has given the green light to another rapid test for the virus that causes COVID-19.The Panbio test from Abbott Rapid Diagnostics in Germany is the first antigen test to be approved in Canada.Antigen tests look for specific markers on the outside of a virus, while all the tests previously approved in Canada look for the novel coronavirus’s genetic material.

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Health Canada approves rapid coronavirus test after feds put 7.9M on order

Health Canada has approved a rapid novel coronavirus test that can detect the respiratory illness in as little as five minutes.The news comes one day after the federal government announced it had signed a deal securing up to 7.9 million Abbot ID Now COVID-19 rapid tests once they were approved by Canadian health officials.More to come.

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Covid-19: RT-PCR test for symptomatic antigen negative patients in Delhi

New Delhi: The Delhi government has asked all districts to retest all symptomatic patients, who have tested negative for COVID-19 on rapid antigen test, using the more reliable RT-PCR method, after it found the process was not followed in over 1,400 cases."Total 1,437 antigen negative symptomatic who have not undergone RT-PCR. Kindly ensure that this is made NIL from today i.e.

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Doug Ford calls on Health Canada to focus on reviewing rapid COVID-19 antigen tests

COVID-19 antigen tests in the hope that one will be approved and used to alleviate the surging testing demand in the province.“That should be their number one priority,” Ford said.“I know Health Canada is doing a great job. They’re extremely, extremely busy but this should be the number one priority.”Ford made the remarks during a rare Saturday press conference in which he announced that new gathering restrictions would be expanded to the entire province amid a spike in coronavirus cases.

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FDA OKs COVID-19 rapid test; CDC talks testing guidance

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted an emergency use authorization (EUA) for a rapid COVID-19 test developed by Abbott Laboratories.

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Covid-19 Antigen Test must for passengers travelling to Jammu and Kashmir by air, rail or road

COVID-19 antigen using the RT-PCR or Rapid Antigen Test or prescribed method," an official release said.The release said all in case of air or rail passengers who have a valid contactable phone number with the Aarogya Setu app downloaded on their phones, they will be sent to home quarantine for 14 days or till their test results are reported negative.It said that in case of air or rail passengers without a valid contactable phone number with the Aarogya Setu app downloaded on their phones, they will be sent to administrative/institutional quarantine or paid quarantine for 14 days or till their test results are reported negative "in which case they are released for home quarantine".The release said that in the event of any such air or rail

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Mylab gets commercial approval from ICMR for Covid-19 antigen rapid testing kit

New Delhi: Mylab Discovery Solutions on Wednesday announced that its ‘Pathocatch’ covid-19 antigen rapid testing kit has received a commercial approval from the Indian Council of Medical Research, making it the first Indian firm to get the nod.“After bringing an affordable RT-PCR test to reduce dependence on foreign kits, we launched Compact XL to accelerate COVID-19 testing. Now, with the approval for an antigen testing kit, we will cover whole spectrum of COVID-19 testing and leave no stone unturned to fight this pandemic," Mylab managing director Hasmukh Rawal was quoted as saying in a statement.Mylabs said its antigen test is priced at ₹450 per unit.

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3M, MIT partner to make rapid COVID-19 antigen test

COVID-19, the company said on Tuesday.The test would produce results within minutes and could be administered on a low-cost, paper-based device, similar to a home pregnancy test, that could be delivered at the point of care."We are seeking to improve the speed, accessibility and affordability of testing for the virus, a major step in helping to prevent its spread," said John Banovetz, the chief technology officer at 3M.The research effort is being aided by a grant from the National Institutes of Health, which is running a project called Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) that funds the development of new testing technologies in academia and business.The program aims to have the new tests available for use by late summer or early

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Covid-19 rapid test from Abbott, used by WH, missed 48% of positives: NYU study

The coronavirus test from Abbott Laboratories used at the White House to get rapid answers to whether someone is infected may miss as many as half of positive cases, according to a report from New York University.

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COVID-19 antigen test could give quick results, but is not foolproof

The cheap, simple-to-use test could miss as many as 4 in 10 cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection. However, its developers argue that as part of triage for suspected cases, the test could help conserve scarce resources for more sensitive laboratory testing.

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COVID-19: Canadian biotech company recalls rapid test kits

Ottawa biotech company, Spartan Bioscience is voluntarily recalling rapid tests for COVID-19, after Health Canada raised concerns about the effectiveness of those kits. Mike Le Couteur reports.

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Coronavirus outbreak: Tam says Spartan rapid test for COVID-19 ‘didn’t perform well’ in clinical setting

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First samples of HLL's India-made rapid testing kits fail quality test in Kerala

NEW DELHI/ERNAKULAM: In a setback, the first samples of state-owned HLL Lifecare Ltd’s indigenous rapid antibody test kits that was sent to Kerala has failed quality tests, three people in the know told Mint.

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ICMR to assess use of rapid test kits after states cry foul

A day after it suspended the much-hyped rapid antibody test kits from China, following complaints of faulty results from several states, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said it will assess the scope and extent of utility of the test in field conditions.

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Chinese rapid test kits come a cropper as toll rises to 640

NEW DELHI : The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), the nation’s top biomedical research agency, halted testing of covid-19 suspects with rapid testing kits imported from China because of a huge variation in test results, compounding the challenge to contain the pandemic.

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1 lakh South Korean rapid test kits reach Andhra, CM Jagan Mohan tests negative

AMARAVATI : Apart from officially flagging off the rapid testing kits imported from South Korea on Friday, Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy also underwent the COVID-19 test. When the results came about ten minutes later, everyone breathed a sigh of relief when Jagan Mohan Reddy tested negative for coronavirus.

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Health Canada approves rapid test kits for COVID-19

Ottawa biotech company Spartan Bioscience has the green light from Health Canada to expand production of its rapid COVID-19 test kits, which offer results within minutes and without a lab. Abigail Bimman reports on how it could change the dynamic of testing in this country.

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Bengaluru startup Bione launches rapid covid-19 home screening test kit

BENGALURU : Bengaluru-based biotech startup Bione said on Thursday that it has launched a rapid covid-19 at-home screening test kit. The company claims that the kit, priced between ₹2,000 and ₹3,000 depending on global supply, is easy to use and displays accurate results within minutes.

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Global COVID-19 total tops 300,000; FDA OKs rapid test

The global number of COVID-19 cases topped 300,000 today, with numbers soaring in western Europe and pandemic activity heating up in North America and other parts of the world

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0

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