How to Build a COVID Testing Lab in Eight Days

On January 25, a man vacationing in Cambodia with his family went swimming in their hotel pool. After toweling off, he spiked a fever and was sent to a local hospital, where his nose and throat were swabbed and the samples were tested for a deadly virus ascendant in his hometown of Wuhan, China. By the following afternoon, the diagnosis was delivered: Cambodia’s first case of COVID-19.