Thank you for the question.
Things have changed. In our work with our provincial partners, we have a goal of 24-hour turnaround for any testing that occurs within the provincial context, regional health authorities especially.
All of our nurses have been trained to gather samples. We have offered that training to independent first nations as well, so that the swabbing can occur at the community level and then be transported to provincial labs.
Our first GeneXpert machine is up and running in Tofino. Yesterday, we received our first positive result in that machine. We have two other machines that should be up and running by the end of November.
There were a few, let's just say, administrative issues to get by with regard to rules and regulations around provincial labs and accreditation and the utilization of these machines in non-hospital environments. We have worked through a lot of that. We have four more machines coming through our federal partnership, and we are in the process of working with communities to select the communities with the most need. Those are the GeneXpert machines.
We are also looking forward to the Abbott ID machines coming, which will allow much more point-of-care style testing that we had originally anticipated would occur with the GeneXpert. It was certainly a lot more complex than we had originally anticipated. We look forward to whatever hand-held point-of-care machines come forward and are prepared to continue to work with our provincial lab partners to enable their utilization.
Every single community I talk to asks me the question about when they will get theirs, and at this point I'm not able to respond to that positively.