In late 2019 a new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) emerged, causing a global pandemic within only a few weeks.
A crucial factor in the public health response to pandemics is achieving a short turnaround time between a potential case becoming known, specimen collection and availability of a test result. In this talk a logistics problem that arises in the context of testing potential cases is presented.
We assume that specimens can be collected in two…
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