Health Canada has approved the use of a device the size of a coffee cup that could be a game-changer for testing for COVID-19.
The Spartan Cube from Ottawa’s Spartan Bioscience eliminates the need for swab samples to travel to the nearest lab and produces a result in less than an hour.
It is expected to help provide rapid tests for health services in rural and remote areas such as Indigenous communities and be used at airports, border crossings, doctors’ offices and pharmacies.
Ontario has ordered nearly 1,000,000 testing kits and the Alberta government has ordered 100,000.
