JAKARTA -- Indonesian scientists are planning to sequence 10,000 samples of COVID-19 this year to detect variants of the virus that may be circulating around the vast archipelago.
Last month, Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin signed a memorandum of understanding with Minister of Research and Technology (RISTEK) Bambang Brodjonegoro to collaborate on "genomic surveillance" -- the process of identifying virus variants by sequencing genetic materials collected from infected patients.
