Gates Foundation Backs Broad Institute Sentinel Genomic Surveillance Network in West Africa
The Gates Foundation supported the Sentinel surveillance system, a collaboration between the Broad Institute and the African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases (ACEGID) in Nigeria. Sentinel was officially deployed in West Africa one month before COVID-19 was declared a pandemic and by February 2020 had established rapid PCR testing and whole-genome sequencing capacity in hospitals across Sierra Leone, Senegal, and Nigeria. The network demonstrated real-time pathogen surveillance at a continental scale, sequencing local SARS-CoV-2 genomes within days of cases being detected.
Source: https://www.broadinstitute.org/news/sentinel-surveillance-network
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