COVID-19.On Tuesday, Alberta Health announced $10 million is being allocated to fund four different targeted serology testing programs.Serology tests detect the presence of antibodies in a person’s blood, which will indicate if the person has previously been exposed to the COVID-19 virus.
The new program will not allow for on-demand individual testing like the current swab program, but will be a targeted approach to test specific segments of the population.“We know that there are people have been infected and were never tested,” Health Minister Tyler Shandro said at Tuesday’s in-person provincial update on the pandemic efforts in the province.“Many of them simply because they never got sick, and that’s where serology testing comes in,” he.