Prof. Peacock is director of the COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium (COG-UK). Formed on 1 April 2020, this is made up of an innovative partnership of NHS organisations, the four Public Health Agencies of the UK, the Wellcome Sanger Institute and more than twelve academic partners who provide sequencing and analysis capacity. Our aim is to to deliver large-scale and rapid whole-genome SARS-CoV-2 sequencing and to combine the virus genome data with clinical and epidemiological datasets in order to help to guide UK public health interventions and policies.