Surface Sampling of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19): A Practical “How To” Protocol for Health Care and Public Health Professionals
Source: World Health Organization (WHO). Published: 2/18/2020.
This 26-page protocol has been designed to determine (viable) virus presence and persistence on fomites in various locations where a patient infected with COVID-19 (2019 novel coronavirus) is currently receiving care or being isolated, and to understand how this may relate to COVID-19 transmission events in these settings. It is therefore important that it is done as part of a comprehensive outbreak investigation and that information obtained by environmental studies is combined with the results of epidemiological, laboratory, and sequence data from COVID-19 patient investigations.
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