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0 pointsmjul5y ago0 comments

According to the Danish Serum Institute, the UK is sequencing about 10% of the positive test results. The UK is considered a leader in this field in Europe including the British Isles.

For comparison, the Danish Serum Institute has a sequencing capacity about 5000 positive tests a week, a rate of around 25% of the positives at the current level.

Source, in Danish, from the Serum Institute:

https://www.ssi.dk/aktuelt/nyheder/2020/ny-covid-virusstamme...

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lostlogin5y ago

New Zealand is achieving over 80% sequencing and more recently has gone over 90%. It's possibly more important when you have less cases so that you can find connections and react to them. It's also a lot easy to do when you have very few cases (<10 versus 30k+).

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2...

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