Two genomics powerhouses team up to expand infectious disease surveillance
The U.K.’s Wellcome Sanger Institute and South Africa’s Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation are teaming up to expand infectious disease surveillance.
LONDON — Two research centers that have been at the forefront of following the evolution of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus — one in the U.K. and one in South Africa — have teamed up on a partnership that they say will expand their efforts to track emerging disease threats around the world.
The collaboration between the U.K.’s Wellcome Sanger Institute and South Africa’s Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation, announced Thursday, comes as much of the infrastructure built up during the pandemic to sequence SARS-2 has dwindled. Global health officials have decried the lack of ongoing surveillance of the virus.
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