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Enhancing Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) and/or Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) national infrastructures and capacities to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic in the European Union and European Economic Area
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Project title: Enhancing Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) and/or Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) national infrastructures and capacities to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic in the European Union and European Economic Area
Project registration number: ECDC/HERA/2021/004 ECD.12218
State funding provider: ECDC
Programme: xxx
Start date: 2021-09-01
End date: 2022-09-30
Principal investigator: Hajdúch Marián M.D., Ph.D.
The general objective of the action is to enhance and/or improve national public health WGS and/or RT-PCR capacity. Results should be directed, tailored and contributing towards the following expected outcomes:
- In the short-term, contribution to the establishment of a sustainable, efficient and high capacity WGS and/or RT-PCR infrastructure for national public health microbiology;
- In the short/medium-term, contribution to early detection and enhanced monitoring of emergent and known SARS-CoV-2 variants at the national and the EU/EEA levels;
- In the medium/long-term, contribution to enhanced genomic-based infectious disease outbreak investigation capacities at regional, national and/or EU/EEA levels;
- In the medium/long-term, contribution to enhanced routine genomic-based surveillance of infectious diseases at the regional, national and/or EU/EEA levels, in accordance with the “ECDC strategic framework for the integration of molecular and genomic typing into European surveillance and multi-country outbreak investigations”; and
- In the long-term, contribution to enhanced preparedness for timely and effective response in cross-border outbreaks of infectious diseases and pandemics.