Learn how to plan for and establish COVID-19 testing in your laboratory to ensure accurate, timely and impactful results. Understand the components of COVID-19 testing in the laboratory. With the world reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic, testing capacity has emerged as a major issue. Adequate testing capacity for SARS-CoV-2 is crucial to halting the outbreak.
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On this course, you’ll learn how to plan for and establish COVID-19 testing in your laboratory and ensure results are accurate, timely and impact on patient care and public health decisions.
Using practical exercises, you’ll learn how to perform site readiness assessment, and how to interpret testing data. When combined with practical on-site training on test procedures for specific tests, you’ll come away with the skills needed to ensure quality COVID-19 test results in your setting.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Explore the scope of the current state of COVID-19 pandemic
- Explore the WHO's recommendations on COVID-19 testing
- Describe how different tests are used for screening, confirmation and surveillance
- Engage with your peers and learn how to perform site readiness assessment, forecasting for COVID-19 testing and how to interpret testing data
- Explore the theoretical components of COVID-19 testing in the laboratory, that when supplemented with hands-on training will provide you with the skills needed to test for SARS-CoV-2 in your setting
