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Quality assurance measures ensure competence and reliability in the laboratories procedures from patient specimen receipt (pre-analytical phase), specimen handling and testing (analytical phase), to the analysis and reporting of patient results (post-analytical phase). However, when faced with new challenges such as Coronavirus pandemic, the virology laboratory has to dynamic and responsive as well as able to adapt existing protocols, implement new technologies in response to the risks posed by the most recent threats to public health, while ensuring that the quality of the testing services provided, demonstrates clinical utility and meets appropriate regulatory requirements |