With Alberta's stockpile of rapid COVID-19 tests about to expire, the province is working to bring in more supply. According to Alberta Health, five million rapid antigen test kits, each containing at least five individual tests, are set to expire in March and will be discarded. Another large stash of tests that expired Jan. 1 have already been tossed. In November, the province told CBC News that 760,000 boxes were in a central warehouse with that expiry date.
At Cambrian Pharmacy in Calgary, pharmacist Mathieu Giroux said that while demand is not nearly as high as it once was, he is still placing regular orders for rapid COVID tests
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