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Platform to be led by Public Health England working with NHS Test and Trace, academic partners, and WHO’s SARS-CoV-2 Global Laboratory Working Group
UK will offer its genomic expertise worldwide to identify new COVID-19 variants 28th January 2021 The UK will offer its genomic expertise to the international community with the aim of aiding the identification of new variants of COVID-19, the government has announced. Countries who do not have the resources to identify new strains of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, will be offered UK capacity to analyse emerging variants. The New Variant Assessment Platform will be led by Public Health England (PHE), working with NHS Test and Trace and academic partners, as well as the World Hea...
UK launches global 'assessment platform' to track new coronavirus variants as they emerge The platform will supposedly offer genomics expertise in the UK to identify new variants, to countries who do not have the resources to do so. The novel coronavirus was declared a pandemic of international concern by the WHO in April. The UK launched a New Variant Assessment Platform on Tuesday, which it says will offer the country's world-leading genomics expertise to identify new variants of the virus that causes COVID-19 to countries wh...
A new platform will make the country's genome knowledge available to partner nations around the world
Britain will offer its genomics expertise to countries lacking resources to identify new variants of the virus that causes Covid-19, the government was set to announce Tuesday. This pandemic has shown that the foundations of so many of the exciting experiences that make life worth living are contin ..