EFFECTIVE TESTING SOLUTIONS ARE ON THE HORIZON The good news is that there are testing solutions in development right now that meet the criteria we mentioned in the previous piece. SimpliFlying is currently producing a comprehensive guide on the different solutions in development for airlines, to speed up the adoption process. However, here are just some that we are aware of: Air Canada and Spartan Bioscience One airline which is already looking at mass testing is Air Canada. On July 8th, the airline announced that it was teaming up with Ottawa biotech company Spartan Bioscience “to assess how best to deploy Spartan’s portable COVID-19 testing technology in the aviation sector.” Spartan Bioscience is best known for developing the “Spartan Cube”, which it says is the world’s smallest DNA analyzer. According to Business Traveller, testing is done via a “non invasive swab” and the results are back in under an hour - that’s longer than what we think is needed (30 mins or less), but still shorter than other solutions available right now. Spartan Bioscience’s COVID-19 tests are still subject to approval by the Canadian regulatory authorities.
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AMM A guide - July on testing, 2020 from AMM
