Practical problems and responses for SARS-CoV-2 laboratory testing during the COVID-19 pandemic

Affiliations

• ¹ Clinical Microbiology, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, United Kingdom; Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom. Electronic address: julian.tang@uhl-tr.nhs.uk.
• ² Canterbury Health Laboratories, Christchurch, New Zealand.
• ³ Clinical Microbiology, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, United Kingdom; Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom.
• ⁴ Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Laboratory Services, NSW Health Pathology-Institute of Clinical Pathology and Medical Research, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia.
• ⁵ Department of Laboratory Medicine, National University Hospital, Singapore.
• ⁶ Virus Research Center, Sendai Medical Center, Sendai, Japan.
• ⁷ Department of Molecular Pathology, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore.
• ⁸ Canterbury Health Laboratories, Christchurch, New Zealand; Department of Pathology and Biomedical Science, University of Otago, Christchurch, New Zealand.