The COVID-19 laboratory response in Timor-Leste; a story of collaboration

Summary: Timor-Leste is a small nation of 1.3 million people which shares a land border with Indonesia and is 550 km from Darwin, Australia. It is one of the poorest nations in Asia. The National Health Laboratory (NHL) and its network of smaller laboratories in Timor-Leste had limited capacity to p...

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Main Authors: Nevio Sarmento, Endang Soares da Silva, Ismael Barreto, João C. Ximenes, Julia M. Angelina, Dircia M. Correia, Silvia M. Babo, Ari Jayanti P. Tilman, Antonio Salles de Sousa, Elisabeth Hornay, Lourenço C. Ico, Filipe de Neri Machado, Maria Varela Niha, Susan Ballard, Chantel Lin, Benjamin Howden, Rob Baird, Johanna Wapling, Lucsendar Alves, Tessa Oakley, Ian Marr, Anthony D.K. Draper, Paul Arkell, Heidi Smith-Vaughan, Nicholas S.S. Fancourt, Jennifer Yan, Joshua R. Francis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023-04-01
Series:The Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772368223000100