COVID testing "breach of trust": Health-care providers call for accountability after investigation

There's been plenty of reaction to a Global News investigation into COVID-19 rapid tests procured by the Canadian government during the height of the pandemic.

The kits in the lime-green box became ubiquitous all over the country, but after digging into this story for over a year, our journalists found evidence that the test's supplier, Toronto-based BTNX, gave Health Canada incomplete data about the test's accuracy.

"This is a huge breach of trust in the public health-care system, in my person opinion. And it's something we should be demanding answers from...the federal government about this," Manitoba Health Coalition's Thomas Linner said.

Global's Heather Yourex-West has that story.

For more info, please go to https://globalnews.ca/news/10183219/covid-test-supplier-canada/

Subscribe to Global News Channel HERE: http://bit.ly/20fcXDc
Like Global News on Facebook HERE: http://bit.ly/255GMJQ
Follow Global News on Twitter HERE: http://bit.ly/1Toz8mt
Follow Global News on Instagram HERE: https://bit.ly/2QZaZIB
#GlobalNews #covid19 #investigativejournalism