European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) countries have detected the circulation of SARS-CoV-2 variant sub-lineages BQ.1 in levels ranging from 0−19% during week 40. This variant originates from the BA.5 Omicron Variant of Concern (VOC).
This report describes and summarises the national results of the external quality assessment (EQA) of laboratory performance for those laboratories participating in the European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Network (EARS-Net) in 2021.
This report summarises the results and data of an ECDC survey assessing the workforce capacity, perceived training needs and the relevance of ECDC training in the field of communicable disease prevention and control collected through ECDC’s capacity and training needs assessment survey, 2021.