Millions of rapid COVID-19 tests still unused, according to federal data
Posted: May 02, 2021 5:00 AM ET | Last Updated: May 2 Data from the federal government shows the number of rapid tests used is just over 1.3 million — meaning more than 6 million tests are potentially sitting idle. (CBC / Radio-Canada) While experts have been calling on the province to ramp up its use of rapid COVID-19 tests, the province has said that millions of these tests have been deployed. But federal data shows that only a small fraction have actually been used. As of April 23, more than 7.4 million rapid antigen tests have been deployed across a number of sectors, including long-t...