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{
    "time": "2020-10-02 11:15:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Darren Fisher (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Health, Lib.)",
        "fr": "M. Darren Fisher (secr\u00e9taire parlementaire de la ministre de la Sant\u00e9, Lib.)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"6274208\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, 7.9 million tests were ordered from Abbott and 2.5 million are arriving in the next few weeks, as late as December 31. We are working day and night to get these tests approved. Over 7.4 million Canadians have already been tested for COVID-19.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6274209\" data-originallang=\"en\">We are seeing a fall resurgence. We must continue to increase laboratory capacity and the number of tests done per day. We will continue to work with provinces and territories to ensure that we can do a high number of tests per day, but also have the resources to do rapid contact tracing and treatment of new cases.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"6274208\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, nous avons command\u00e9 7,9 millions de tests aupr\u00e8s d'Abbott. De ce nombre, 2,5 millions arriveront au cours des prochaines semaines, et au plus tard le 31 d\u00e9cembre. Nous travaillons jour et nuit pour faire approuver ces tests. Plus de 7,4 millions de Canadiens ont d\u00e9j\u00e0 fait l'objet d'un test de d\u00e9pistage de la COVID-19.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6274209\" data-originallang=\"en\">Nous observons une nouvelle augmentation du nombre de cas cet automne. Nous devons continuer d'accro\u00eetre la capacit\u00e9 des laboratoires et le nombre de tests effectu\u00e9s par jour. Nous continuerons de collaborer avec les provinces et les territoires pour augmenter le nombre de tests effectu\u00e9s quotidiennement. Toutefois, nous avons \u00e9galement les ressources pour proc\u00e9der rapidement \u00e0 la recherche des contacts et au traitement des nouveaux cas.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2020/10/2/darren-fisher-2/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/darren-fisher/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4372/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "10939546",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Questions",
        "fr": "Questions Orales"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Health",
        "fr": "La sant\u00e9"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2020/10/2/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2020%2F10%2F2%2F"
    }
}