{"id":7319,"date":"2024-10-23T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=7319"},"modified":"2024-10-24T12:25:25","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T16:25:25","slug":"free-rapid-covid-tests-a-thing-of-the-past-in-alberta-unless-youre-really-lucky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/free-rapid-covid-tests-a-thing-of-the-past-in-alberta-unless-youre-really-lucky\/","title":{"rendered":"Free rapid COVID tests a thing of the past in Alberta, unless you\u2019re really lucky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The days of access to free rapid COVID-19 tests are over, unless you stumble across a pharmacy with a few boxes left, and most Albertans wishing to test for the virus now have to pay out of pocket.<\/p>\n<p>The Alberta government has received its full allotment through the free federal government program, which ended earlier this month. Now its entire stockpile has been distributed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The days of access to free rapid COVID-19 tests are over, unless you stumble across a pharmacy with a few boxes left, and most Albertans wishing to test for the virus now have to pay out of pocket.<\/p>\n<p>The Alberta government has received its full allotment through the free federal government program, which ended earlier this month. Now its entire stockpile has been distributed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/free-rapid-covid-tests-a-thing-of-the-past-in-alberta-unless-youre-really-lucky\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Free rapid COVID tests a thing of the past in Alberta, unless you\u2019re really lucky<\/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":[315,96,18,22,14],"class_list":["post-7319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-alberta","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-rapid-tests","tag-sars-cov-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7319","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=7319"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7321,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7319\/revisions\/7321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}