Emergency management strategies for clinical laboratories on COVID-19 epidemic and future prevention and control recommendations

ABSTRACT

The epidemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been basically contained in China, but increasingly severe overseas. It indicates that COVID-19 has stepped into the stage of"global pandemic". In the process of the prevention and the control of COVID-19 epidemic, clinical laboratory has been playing an important role. To end the epidemic as soon as possible and improve the capacity of anti-epidemic, the management experience and measures of clinical laboratories during the epidemic are summarized. Meanwhile, some suggestions are made for the future prevention and control measures, in case that the COVID-19 becomes seasonal disease or epidemic-prone infectious disease in winter.