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It is true Canada is developing a test for COVID-19 in the very lab in Wuhan that’s being investigated as possible Ground Zero of the origin of the coronavirus.

But, saying it needs to be all hands on deck, the research doctor is defending it.

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“It will take a global community of clinicians and researchers collaborating across borders to slow the spread of COVID-19 and to eventually develop vaccinations,” Dr. Xiaochun (Chris) Le,of Edmonton’s University of Alberta, told the Toronto Sun in an email interview.

“We are part of this global effort to combat COVID-19.”

Le tells me his “research centres around the creation of a point-of-care diagnostic tool that will provide accurate, fast and inexpensive COVID-19 screening tests” that would simplify it to become “similar to a pregnancy test in which changes on a paper strip indicate the presence of the virus” in under 15 minutes.

It’s exciting, important work.