Spartan Bioscience Earns Canadian Approval for COVID-19 Test

Health Canada has approved Ottawa-based Spartan Bioscience’s portable COVID-19 rapid molecular diagnostic test.

The test comes with a portable, coffee cup-sized DNA analyzer called the “Spartan Cube” that uses the company’s COVID-19 test cartridges and swabs.

The diagnostic can be used in settings outside the laboratory, such as airports, border crossings, doctors’ offices, clinics, pharmacies and remote communities.