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Simon Fraser University researchers announced Friday they have validated a faster, cheaper COVID-19 test that could help kickstart the expansion of wider rapid testing.
“This research offers a cheaper, faster alternative to the most reliable and sensitive test currently used worldwide without sacrificing sensitivity and reproducibility,” said Peter Unrau, a SFU molecular biology and biochemistry professor who led the team evaluating the COVID-19 testing kit.
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The results of the SFU study of the testing kit produced by Mission-based Lumex Instruments have been published in The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics.
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Don’t expect a major easing of COVID-19 restrictions right away in the province’s restart plan, which is to be announced Tuesday by the B.C. government.
Experts say the provincial government is likely to, and should, take a cautious approach, doing as Premier John Horgan indicated Thursday, possibly starting with rolling back the “circuit breaker” restrictions put in place at the end of March when coronavirus cases were surging.
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B.C.’s COVID-19 vaccination program appears to show no signs of letting up.
For about 10 days, the average number of people getting vaccinated daily has been 50,000. And there are more than 808,000 British Columbians registered for a vaccine on the province’s booking system as of May 19 who had yet to get a first dose, according to information provided by the Ministry of Health.
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A real estate management services company operating in B.C. has been ordered to cease operations and has had bank accounts frozen by the provincial Office of the Superintendent of Real Estate Services.
The regulatory body issued the emergency orders against Cricket Property Management Inc. on May 6 following an investigation and “numerous” complaints from industry members, tenants, owners, members of the public and the Burnaby RCMP.
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“As a result of an ongoing investigation into these complaints, the superintendent has determined that it is in the public interest to make the order urgently without a hearing,” says a written statement from the Office of the Superintendent of Real Estate Services.