“Confirmation of Ebola as the cause of death of a 32-year-old nurse at the Mulago Supra-National Hospital in Uganda in January, was made within 24 hours, thanks to a team from the core genomics facility at the country’s Central Public Health Laboratories (CPHL), who camped out at the office overnight…

‘What we and our colleagues in Uganda managed – and I think it’s a genomic world speed record of sorts – was in part down to the technology, but it was also the readiness,’ says Peter van Heusden, a researcher at SANBI, who in 2020 had worked with the South African National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD) to generate South Africa’s first genomic sequences for SARS-CoV-2.”

From Nature.