{"id":106,"date":"2023-07-29T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-29T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=106"},"modified":"2023-08-13T02:35:10","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T06:35:10","slug":"federal-government-struggling-to-get-rid-of-millions-of-extra-covid-19-rapid-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/federal-government-struggling-to-get-rid-of-millions-of-extra-covid-19-rapid-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal government struggling to get rid of millions of extra COVID-19 rapid tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>CTV News \/ The Associated Press<\/h2>\n<h2>July 29, 2023<\/h2>\n<p>The federal government is sitting on a stockpile of 39 million extra rapid tests for COVID-19 and is struggling to get rid of them without chucking them in the trash, an internal Health Canada memo shows.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/canada\/federal-government-struggling-to-get-rid-of-millions-of-extra-covid-19-rapid-tests-1.6499279\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/canada\/federal-government-struggling-to-get-rid-of-millions-of-extra-covid-19-rapid-tests-1.6499279<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h3>CTV News \/ The Associated Press<\/h3>\n<h3>July 29, 2023<\/h3>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/federal-government-struggling-to-get-rid-of-millions-of-extra-covid-19-rapid-tests\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Federal government struggling to get rid of millions of extra COVID-19 rapid tests<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[18,21,22,14,7],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-covid-19","tag-health-canada","tag-rapid-tests","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-tests","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":370,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions\/370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}