Thousands of kits meant to screen for COVID-19 delivered to New Brunswick from a supplier in China last week were contaminated and can't be used at this point. Bruce Macfarlane, a spokesperson for the Department of Health, said none of the contaminated test kits have been used. The test kits were delivered to the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg and then sent to New Brunswick. Garceau said the province isn't the only location affected, estimating more than 300,000 test kits delivered across the country were contaminated. The province confirmed in an email to CBC News on Thursday that it was that shipment that had the contaminated test kits.

Source: CBC News April 16, 2020 13:44 UTC