Genomic surveillance during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic - country experience and lessons learned from Türkiye

• Main Authors: Süleyman Yalçın (Author), Yasemin Coşgun (Author), Ege Dedeoğlu (Author), Katharina Kopp (Author), Fatma Bayrakdar (Author), Gültekin Ünal (Author), Biran Musul (Author), Ekrem Sağtaş (Author), Gülay Korukluoğlu (Author), Philomena Raftery (Author), Sedat Kaygusuz (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2024-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BackgroundTürkiye confirmed its first case of SARS-CoV-2 on March 11, 2020, coinciding with the declaration of the global COVID-19 pandemic. Subsequently, Türkiye swiftly increased testing capacity and implemented genomic sequencing in 2020. This paper describes Türkiye's journey of establis...