Thank you again for the question.
Over 10.6 million Canadians have been tested for COVID-19 to date. As you know, a large portion of the safe restart agreement was to help provinces and territories build their capacity to test Canadians.
Testing is one component of the strategy. Test, contact trace, and isolate is the way that we reduce the cases across the country. People obviously have to take actions themselves to reduce their mobility, but we know that this robust test, trace, isolate strategy is one of the ways that we can actually reduce the growth of cases as well.
In addition to the safe restart agreement, we've also been procuring and sending rapid tests to provinces and territories. In fact, over 4.6 million rapid tests have ben distributed to provinces and territories to date, and two million have gone to Ontario alone since early October. We've had rapid tests in the field in rural and remote communities for a very long time to support those communities to get access to test results very quickly. I'm thinking of indigenous communities in Ontario, for example, that have very vulnerable health care systems.
We've been there for provinces and territories. The good news is that we're starting to see testing numbers go up across the country as provinces and territories build their capacity to have a robust testing strategy.