Manitoba is calling on the federal government to reverse its ban on the direct sale to provinces of a new rapid test for COVID-19.
The ID NOW rapid COVID test is said to determine whether or not a person tests positive for COVID-19 within about 15 minutes.
Health Canada recently approved the tests, but the Canadian government is currently blocking the sale of them directly to provincial governments, indicating that it will decide how that supply will be allocated.
Premier Brian Pallister has written to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to express Manitoba’s disappointment in the blocking of access to an important tool to increase COVID-19 testing capacity.
