As New Zealand's Omicron infections rise rapidly, genome surveillance is shifting gears
- Written by: David Welch, Senior Lecturer, University of Auckland
Shutterstock/ktsdesignGenomic sequencing has been a key tool throughout Aotearoa’s COVID-19 pandemic, with data generated here now part of the 8.5 million genomes shared globally.
It has helped us understand how cases arrived here and the extent of community outbreaks. It has also given us detailed insight into how the virus is transmitted...
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