Since its creation in 2023, WHO Coronavirus Network (CoViNet) keeps growing and bringing surveillance programs & reference laboratories to:
🧪 strengthen countries’ testing capacities
🔬 support epidemiological monitoring and laboratory assessment coronaviruses, such as SARS-CoV-2
CoViNet in 2025:
👩🏽🔬 57 labs across 34 countries and counting
🧫 Development and validation of a universal RT-PCR assay for detecting all emerging coronaviruses in humans, animals and wastewater
✅ Facilitation of an external quality assessment programme for zoonotic coronaviruses, to ensure countries are prepared to detected emerging coronaviruses
📊 Provide continued technical expertise to labs
More on CoViNet www.who.int/groups/who-coronavirus-network