Sandstone Pharmacies offering asymptomatic COVID-19 testing
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Sandstone Pharmacies announced this week that it has partnered with Calgary health innovator CardiAi to provide Albertans with easy, local access to accurate COVID-19 testing at over 20 pharmacy and lab locations across Alberta.
Sandstone Pharmacies has locations in Innisfail and Blackfalds that are now available as collection centers for saliva samples required for COVID-19 testing with CardiAI’s proprietary CoviLamp-PCR test.
“Being an organization which services communities across Alberta, we understand implicitly people’s need to have trusted local facilities where they can get friendly professional advice as well as the medical and healthcare products they need.” said Marco Casagrande, Vice President, Sandstone Pharmacies.
“With the global pandemic crisis, this has become more important than ever. We’re very pleased to be partnering with one of Canada’s most exciting healthcare innovators CardiAI and, with them, ensuring all Albertans have a quick and convenient way to get accurately tested. In order to stop the spread of this incredibly destructive disease, it’s essential that people have straightforward, local access to rapid testing. Our collaboration with CardiAi ensures our PCR test is made available to as many Albertans as possible and we are excited to be working with the incredible team to advance that effort.”
