{"id":5694,"date":"2024-05-07T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=5694"},"modified":"2024-05-08T00:40:54","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T04:40:54","slug":"ottawa-will-stop-providing-covid-19-rapid-tests-to-regions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/ottawa-will-stop-providing-covid-19-rapid-tests-to-regions\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa will stop providing COVID-19 rapid tests to regions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian government plans to stop supplying provinces and territories with free COVID-19 rapid tests, which has an infection control epidemiologist worried about two-tiered health care, increased spread and increased health-care costs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe federal government continues to support Canada\u2019s rapid testing needs while the federal inventory remains,\u201d Health Canada spokesperson Nicholas Janveau told CBC News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat said, rapid test programming was and continues to be a provincial\/territorial responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa currently has about 70&nbsp;million of the tests, which people can use at home to screen for the virus. About 3.6&nbsp;million of these have already expired and are ineligible for distribution.<\/p>\n<p>The tests usually come in boxes of five, which would mean an inventory of just over 13&nbsp;million test kits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian government plans to stop supplying provinces and territories with free COVID-19 rapid tests, which has an infection control epidemiologist worried about two-tiered health care, increased spread and increased health-care costs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe federal government continues to support Canada\u2019s rapid testing needs while the federal inventory remains,\u201d Health Canada spokesperson Nicholas Janveau told CBC News.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/ottawa-will-stop-providing-covid-19-rapid-tests-to-regions\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ottawa will stop providing COVID-19 rapid tests to regions<\/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":[96,1107,18,21,22,14],"class_list":["post-5694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-canadian-government","tag-covid-19","tag-health-canada","tag-rapid-tests","tag-sars-cov-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5694","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=5694"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5697,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5694\/revisions\/5697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}