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Why a coordinated global response, alongside urgent investment is needed to end the COVID-19 pandemic

Technicians prepare specimens from coronavirus disease (COVID-19) tests to be processed for a positive or negative result at the UW Medicine Virology lab in Seattle, Washington, U.S., March 18, 2020.

Technicians prepare specimens from coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Image: REUTERS/Brian Snyder

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