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Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Technical Guidance: Laboratory Testing for 2019-nCoV in Humans

02/12/2020 12:00 AM EST

Source: World Health Organization (WHO). Published: 2/12/2020. This web page, updated on February 12, 2020, provides a seven-page document whose purpose is to provide interim guidance to laboratories and stakeholders involved in laboratory testing of patients who meet the definition of suspected case of pneumonia associated with a novel coronavirus (COVID-19) identified in Wuhan, China. It also provides information about molecular testing of COVID-19; and WHO appointed COVID-19 referral laboratories and procedures. (Text)