Abstract: The first human cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), a disease caused by the new coronavirus, was reported on December 31, 2019 in China for the first time. Тhe virus was named temporarily as 2019 new coronavirus (2019 novel coronavirus-2019 -nCoV), or finally as SARS-CoV-2. The aim of this paper is to give an overview of the laboratory detection of SARS-CoV-2 virus with reverse transcriptase - polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) in real time, as well as detection of viral mutations in the Laboratory for virology at the Institute of Public ...
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