covid 19 Ontario testingCOVID-19 Ontario The Federal Safe Restart Agreement signed between Ontario and the Trudeau government called for as much as 78,000 tests to be processed per day. But Anderson said increasing capacity is still a challenge, as almost every jurisdiction trying to get capacity up, by fighting and outbidding each other for the components of the nasal PCR test long cotton swabs and chemical reagent. Anderson called the global war for testing supplies Ontarios biggest rate limiter when it comes to testing. Testing rates have improved in recent days, with Public Health Ontarios head of microbiology, Dr. Vanessa Allen, saying that nearly 80 per cent of all test results reach subjects within 48 hours. But Anderson said that an undisclosed amount of out-of-province, and in the case of pharmacy testing, out-of-country lab capacity is helping them increase output. He said Ontario will continue to rely on some out-of-province testing help until turnaround times improve even further.