The National Pandemic Center (NPC) at Karolinska Institutet ceased operations on 2020-12-21. Please note that the data presented here receives no further updates and only remains for historical reference. The numbers are based on automatically compiled data and might not correspond to the numbers reported through other sources for different reasons.

KI Press Release: https://nyheter.ki.se/covid-19-tester-ki-atergar-till-ordinarie-laboratorieverksamhet-men-har-fortsatt-beredskap

NPC was a facility for SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) testing set up within the Centre for Translational Microbiome Research (CTMR) at Karolinska Institutet (KI)/SciLifeLab. At the end of March 2020 the large-scale microbiome research lab was quickly converted into a center to assist Sweden in analyzing SARS-CoV-2 tests. This was made possible through a donation by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (KAW) in combination with a previously established collaboration with MGI Tech. in Shenzen, China. Initially providing assistance with RNA-extraction capacity to Karolinska Universitetslaboratoriet, NPC quickly expanded into providing a facility providing increased SARS-CoV-2 testing capacity to all regions of Sweden.

The final capacity of the National Pandemic Center at KI/SciLifeLab reached approximately 10,000 test per day, with results typically returned within 24 hours from the sample arriving to the lab. NPC exclusively performed PCR-based analyses, not serological (antibody-based) analyses.

Graphics of this dataset are published in the Covid-19 Data Portal Sweden.