Figure 1.

Map of Türkiye showing the country’s geographical regions and the locations of regional laboratories that refered samples to the NVRL for NGS. The laboratories included in the genomic surveillance network were from the Marmara region (dark green) (six laboratories from Istanbul and one laboratory from Bursa), the Aegean region (light blue) (one laboratory in Izmir), the Mediterranean region (purple) (two laboratories, one each in Antalya and Adana), Southeastern Anatolian region (yellow) (two laboratories, one each in Gaziantep and Diyarbakir), Eastern Anatolia region (orange) (two laboratories, one each in Van and Erzurum), Black Sea region (light green)(one laboratory in Samsun), and Central Anatolia region (red) (one laboratory in Ankara).