Canada's chief medical officer of health Dr. Theresa Tam will give an update on the country's ongoing efforts to combat COVID-19 on Friday.

As COVID-19 cases increase across Canada, testing centres are beginning to see long lines and delays in getting results.

On Tuesday, Tam spoke about the delays and said that they are looking into ways to “augment” current methods of testing for COVID-19, but they need to continue monitoring to see how effective and safe it is, as well as how long it takes for results to be received.

She added that they are also looking at newer approaches that may be “coming up.”

Canada has a total of 140,752 COVID-19 cases and over 9,000 deaths as of Friday morning.

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