Samples Received

Total samples received October 2026

In the past month, we have received samples from the following laboratories (as of 2nd of November 2026)

Country City Centre Number of samples
Australia Adelaide SA Pathology 167
* includes samples received through the Australian Sentinel Practices Research Network (ASPREN)
Australia Brisbane Queensland Children's Hospital 58
Australia Brisbane Public and Environmental Health Reference Laboratories (PEHRL) 50
Australia Brisbane Princess Alexandra Hospital 38
Australia Canberra Canberra Hospital 68
Australia Darwin Royal Darwin Hospital 149
Australia Geelong Australian Clinical Labs 26
Australia Hobart Hobart Pathology 45
Australia Hobart Royal Hobart Hospital 156
Australia Melbourne Alfred Hospital 69
Australia Melbourne Austin Pathology 60
Australia Melbourne Monash Medical Centre 51
Australia Melbourne Royal Children's Hospital 94
Australia Melbourne Royal Melbourne Hospital 13
Australia Melbourne VIDRL 12
Australia Perth PathWest Laboratory Medicine (QEII 39
Australia Sydney The Children's Hospital at Westmead 80
Australia Sydney Westmead Hospital 31
New Zealand Wellington PHF Science 127
Fiji Suva Fiji Centre for Disease Control 50
Kiribati Bikenibeu Ministry of Health and Medical Services 4
Solomon Islands Honiara National Referral Hospital 34
Tonga Nukuʻalofa Laboratory Service Vaiola Hospital 16
Cook Islands Cook Islands Te Marae Ora Ministry Of Health 40

Total samples received, 1 January - 31 October 2026

AUSTRALASIA

Australia

City Centre Number of samples
Adelaide SA Pathology 549
* includes samples received through the Australian Sentinel Practices Research Network (ASPREN)
Brisbane Queensland Children's Hospital 122
Brisbane Public and Environmental Health Reference Laboratories (PEHRL) 203
Brisbane Princess Alexandra Hospital 110
Cairns Pathology Queensland 75
Canberra Canberra Hospital 447
Darwin Royal Darwin Hospital 689
Geelong Australian Clinical Labs 78
Hobart Hobart Pathology 181
Hobart Royal Hobart Hospital 401
Melbourne Alfred Hospital 201
Melbourne Austin Pathology 185
Melbourne Monash Medical Centre 551
Melbourne Royal Children's Hospital 290
Melbourne Royal Melbourne Hospital 137
Melbourne VIDRL 33
Perth PathWest QEII Medical Centre 186
Sydney The Children's Hospital at Westmead 506
Sydney Westmead Hospital 203

New Zealand

City Centre Number of samples
Wellington PHF Science 177

SOUTH EAST ASIA

Country City Centre Number of samples
Brunei Bandar Seri Begawan National Virology Reference Laboratory 124
Cambodia Phnom Penh Institut Pasteur du Cambodge 96
Cook Islands Cook Islands Te Marae Ora Ministry of Health 40
Indonesia Jakarta National Health Biology Laboratory 30
Singapore Singapore National Public Health Laboratory 162
Timor-Leste Dili Laboratório Nacional de Saúde 167

SOUTH ASIA

Country City Centre Number of samples
India Pune National Institute of Virology 26
Maldives Maldives Republic of Maldives- Department of Laboratory Medicine 100
Nepal Kathmandu National Public Health Laboratory 40
Sri Lanka Colombo Medical Research Institute 150

PACIFIC

Country City Centre Number of samples
Fiji Suva Fiji Centre for Disease Control 53
New Caledonia Noumea Centre hospitalier de Nouvelle Calédonie 140
Kiribati Bikenibeu Ministry of Health and Medical Services 4
Papua New Guinea Goroka Institute of Medical Research 80
Samoa Apia Tupua Tamases Meaole Hospital 12
Solomon Islands Honiara National Referral Hospital 34
Tonga Nukuʻalofa Laboratory Service Vaiola Hospital 21
Tuvalu Funafuti Princess Margaret Hospital 48
Vanuatu Port Vila Vila Central Hospital Laboratory Department 7

AFRICA

Country City Centre Number of samples
South Africa Johannesburg National Institute for Communicable Disease 28

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