Samples Received

Total samples received September 2026

In the past month, we have received samples from the following laboratories (as of 5th of October 2026)

Country City Centre Number of samples
Australia Adelaide SA Pathology 121
* includes samples received through the Australian Sentinel Practices Research Network (ASPREN)
Australia Brisbane Queensland Children's Hospital 7
Australia Brisbane Public and Environmental Health Reference Laboratories (PEHRL) 50
Australia Brisbane Princess Alexandra Hospital 33
Australia Cairns Pathology Queensland 27
Australia Canberra Canberra Hospital 186
Australia Darwin Royal Darwin Hospital 137
Australia Hobart Hobart Pathology 40
Australia Hobart Royal Hobart Hospital 63
Australia Melbourne Alfred Hospital 21
Australia Melbourne Austin Pathology 59
Australia Melbourne Monash Medical Centre 80
Australia Melbourne Royal Children's Hospital 71
Australia Melbourne Royal Melbourne Hospital 30
Australia Melbourne VIDRL 14
Australia Perth PathWest Laboratory Medicine (QEII 54
Australia Sydney The Children's Hospital at Westmead 113
Australia Sydney Westmead Hospital 55
India Pune National Institute of Virology 16
New Caledonia Noumea Centre hospitalier de Nouvelle Calédonie 40
Samoa Apia Tupua Tamases Meaole Hospital 2

Total samples received, 1 January - 30 September 2026

AUSTRALASIA

Australia

City Centre Number of samples
Adelaide SA Pathology 382
* includes samples received through the Australian Sentinel Practices Research Network (ASPREN)
Brisbane Queensland Children's Hospital 64
Brisbane Public and Environmental Health Reference Laboratories (PEHRL) 153
Brisbane Princess Alexandra Hospital 72
Cairns Pathology Queensland 75
Canberra Canberra Hospital 379
Darwin Royal Darwin Hospital 522
Geelong Australian Clinical Labs 52
Hobart Hobart Pathology 136
Hobart Royal Hobart Hospital 163
Melbourne Alfred Hospital 132
Melbourne Austin Pathology 125
Melbourne Monash Medical Centre 500
Melbourne Royal Children's Hospital 196
Melbourne Royal Melbourne Hospital 124
Melbourne VIDRL 21
Perth PathWest QEII Medical Centre 147
Sydney The Children's Hospital at Westmead 426
Sydney Westmead Hospital 172

New Zealand

City Centre Number of samples
Wellington PHF Science 50

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
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 3
New Caledonia Noumea Centre hospitalier de Nouvelle Calédonie 140
Papua New Guinea Goroka Institute of Medical Research 80
Samoa Apia Tupua Tamases Meaole Hospital 12
Tonga Nukuʻalofa Laboratory Service Vaiola Hospital 5
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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