A Canadian company says it has received approval from Health Canada for a rapid portable test to detect the novel coronavirus.
Based in Ottawa, Spartan Bioscience said in a news release Sunday that federal government approval means its tests can now start heading out the door to “federal and provincial government partners starting immediately.” “We are ready to start shipping our portable COVID-19 test to the federal and provincial governments, and to make them widely available to Canadians,” said CEO Paul Lem in the statement.
He said the government worked closely with the company in order to “expedite the review and approval process.” “There is an urgent unmet need for rapid COVID-19 testing, and as a proudly Canadian company, we are