While it's true that more testing will inevitably uncover more cases, 'what's happening now is not the same as what happened back in March,' said one expert.

As Canada's coronavirus numbers continue to rise, the country's chief public health officer said she is confident testing capacity can withstand a second wave. 

The main type of test for the novel coronavirus around the world has a “false-negative” rate of at least 20 per cent, researchers from Johns Hopkins University found.

The federal government will fund provinces' efforts to test people for COVID-19, track the contacts of positive cases and help jurisdictions share data, the prime minister said.

Provincial leaders declared they will expand their testing rules as cases and deaths continued to rise and questions persisted about the true extent of community spread.

Ontario has been completing fewer tests for COVID-19 over the past week – just 2,568 reported on Tuesday – well short of the 19,000 daily tests the province targeted for mid-April.

B.C and Alberta are starting to show signs of reducing the spread of COVID-19, while Ontario and Quebec are continuing to see sharp increases.

As provinces limit COVID-19 testing, experts say we will miss cases and Canada may not know whether it is truly 'flattening the curve.'