After initially needing to send them out of province to Winnipeg, the Roy Romanow Provincial Lab in Regina later began to process COVID-19 tests in-province.[56] On April 9, it was announced that the lab had processed over 1,000 in 24 hours.[57] On April 13, Premier Moe announced that the province had begun to deploy around twelve mobile testing machines, beginning in Meadow Lake and Prince Albert, to allow tests to be processed on-site in around four hours.