Guidelines for the collection of research samples during and after the COVID-19 pandemic

Cancer Research UK has collated some of the guidelines from official sources, including Public Health England, NHS England, and the Centre for Disease Control on the collection and processing of human specimens for clinical and translational research during and after the COVID-19 pandemic into a single document. 

Please note that this document does not cover sample handling for the propagation, culturing or direct work on SARS-CoV-2 for diagnostic or research purposes.