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.
The federal government is sitting on a stockpile of millions of rapid tests and is trying to figure out how to get rid of some of them.
"Acknowledging the volumes of tests in play and the challenge of divesting such quantity over a time-bound period, it is expected that disposal of expired tests would be required," staff wrote to Health Canada's deputy minister in a memo signed March 25.People stand outside in a lineup to enter a COVID-19 rapid test site in Markham, Ont., on Jan. 12, 2022.
That wave never came, and as public health restrictions were gradually lifted, the government found itself with a stockpile of some 93 million tests as of March 21.By July 25, the store of tests was still sitting at over 90 million, Health Canada said in a statement. So far no tests have been binned, though the department says 2.1 million tests are either damaged, expired or considered "non-compliant" and can't be distributed.
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