ID NOW Rapid COVID Test to Arrive This Week Amid Backlog of Unprocessed Tests

ID NOW Rapid COVID Test to Arrive This Week Amid Backlog of Unprocessed Tests
FILE - In this April 10, 2020, file frame grab from video, a lab technician dips a sample into the Abbott Laboratories ID Now testing machine at the Detroit Health Center in Detroit. Illinois-based Abbott Laboratories says its cartridge-based test, approved last month, delivers results within minutes. AP Photo/Carlos Osorio
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Canada is due to receive the first shipment of ID NOW COVID-19 tests this week and the quicker Panbio rapid tests by the end of the year,.

Health Canada approved a purchase of 7.9 million ID NOW rapid tests from Abbott at the end of September.