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Researchers contribute to local infection control
The map shows the proportion of the adult population who have been tested in different districts in Uppsala during the past two weeks.
Photograph: Tove Fall and Mats Martinell
Uppsala is one of the regions that has been particularly hard hit by COVID-19 over recent weeks. Infectious disease specialists and researchers are now collaborating to reverse this trend.
Mats Martinell, senior medical advisor to Region
Uppsala and senior lecturer in family medicine
at Uppsala University. Photo: David Naylor
It is a Thursday in early December and regional health authority Region Uppsala is holding a press conference. One of the speakers is Mats Martinell, senior medical advisor to Region Uppsala and senior lecturer in family medicine at Uppsala University. Since October, Mats has been in charge of the CRUSH COVID research project, which is gathering data from various sources to build a picture of the spread of infection.