Abstract:The unprecedented global pandemic known as COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2 has a profound impact on human life and health, economy and society. Since the outbreak, tremendous effort has been put forth to expand our capacity to diagnose this deadly virus, because accurate detection is essential to effectively combat the epidemic. Numbers of reports have focused on whether the detection methods are sensitive and accurate enough [1]. Little information on the critical first step of detection, sample preservation, i… Show more
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